IB Music
LENGTH: Two years
KEY CONTACT: Ryan Brown
COURSE CONTENT:
A creative course that develops students as independent musicians, performers, composers, and researchers through global musical exploration, practical experimentation, and critical analysis across diverse contexts. Student are exposed to music making and creating across global and personal music.
IB Music is practically based and independent in nature. The course fosters musicianship and shapes student musical identities as researchers, creators and performers. Students explore the diversity of music across time, culture and context, while evaluating through critical perspectives their own compositions and the work of others. The course develops students into perceptive and analytical musical performers that are imaginative and capable of creating and collaborating with others.
Students experiment and present music as a performer in an ensemble or as a soloist, while exploring music conventions and applying their findings to own practical work
Topics:
- Music from personal, local and global context
- Music for sociocultural and political expression
- Music for listening and performing
- Music for drama, movement and entertainment
- Music technology
Additional Higher Level Content
- Continuous multimodal presentation documenting a collaborative real life project in music performance and production.
ASSESSMENT:
Students will demonstrate their understanding through assessment in the following forms:
- Externally assessed: Experimenting with music, Exploring music in context.
- Presenting solo or ensemble performance.
- The contemporary music maker (HL only)
SUBJECT COSTS:
All IB subjects incur an examination fee in the second year of the course in order to be externally assessed. The costing system is only applied to those that undertake the final examination, there is no cost to students who undertake the course for only one of two years.
Please note, costs vary slightly due to global exchange rates.
