Composing: SQA Advanced Higher Music composing assignment quiz quiz

Through the assignment: an original piece plus a reflective review

Through a written theory exam

Through a listening test

Through a group performance

Using as many ideas as possible

Writing the longest piece

Developing a few ideas thoroughly

Copying an existing piece

Repeating an idea unchanged

Abandoning ideas quickly

Avoiding any repetition

Varying, extending, combining and transforming material

Because it is too short

Because more ideas always score higher

Because invention without development lacks coherence and craft

Because original ideas are banned

To list the dates you worked

To evidence your reflective thinking about your compositional decisions

To summarise other composers' music

To replace the composition

A diary of dates and times

A list of equipment used

A reflective account of the concepts used, why you chose them, and how you developed ideas

A copy of the score only

It uses the same concepts as creative tools

It has no connection

It replaces the listening paper

It uses entirely different concepts

In a single exam session

Across the year as coursework

Only in the final week

It is improvised on the spot

Only the music

Only the review

The length and the title

The music and the review

Choosing harmony, texture, structure and timbre purposefully for effect

Using random combinations

Avoiding the concepts entirely

Copying a textbook example

Because short pieces are required

Because development demonstrates control of the concepts and gives coherence

Because variety is forbidden

Because the review must be short

Reasoning about musical choices

Tying reflection to the music

Treating it as a diary of activities rather than reflection on decisions

Explaining why ideas were chosen