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Composing
Quick questions on Composing - SQA Higher Music assignment overview
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What is the composing review?Show answer
The composing review is where you explain your composition. Using accurate musical vocabulary, you describe and justify the compositional methods and concepts you used: why you repeated or varied a theme, why you chose a particular instrument, texture or structure, and how each decision serves the music. The review draws on the same conceptual knowledge as the listening paper, applied to your own work.
What is q1?Show answer
What are the two parts of the composing assignment? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Name two compositional methods you could use to develop a musical idea. [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
What does the composing review reward? [2 marks]
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