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Composing
Quick questions on Composing: SQA Advanced Higher Music composing assignment overview
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What is develop your ideas, do not just collect them?Show answer
The central composing skill is development. Invention (having ideas) is the start; craft is working those ideas (varying, extending, combining, transforming and structuring them) so the piece grows and coheres. A composition that introduces and develops a few ideas convincingly outscores one that abandons many. As you compose, ask not only what comes next but how the material you already have can be developed, so the concepts you control are heard in the working of the music.
What is q1?Show answer
What is the central skill the composing assignment rewards? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What should the review contain? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Why does a piece of many undeveloped ideas score poorly? [1 mark]
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