Teacher's Guide Cambridge Pre-U MUSIC Available for teaching ...

Cambridge Pre-U Teacher Guide
As in Component 3, Section C, teachers will complete a form to authenticate the work as that of
the candidate. This authentication should be based on the certainty, following regular supervision
throughout the course, that the work submitted is genuinely that of the candidate who claims
authorship.
Recordings submitted for this component must be on CDs, in a format which allows them to be
played on standard domestic CD players. Recordings must not be submitted in any format that can
be played only through a computer, nor in any format that requires particular software for playback
(e.g. iTunes, Windows Media).
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY
Component 44
This component provides opportunities for candidates who wish either to compose music that
cannot be conventionally notated (and which is thus excluded from Component 43), or to explore the
use of technology in ways which go beyond notation programs and their inbuilt playback facilities.
Candidates and teachers alike should bear in mind firstly that this is just one component in the
examination, not a whole music technology syllabus, and secondly that candidates’ work will be
judged equally on musical outcomes (40 marks) and on the application of technology (40 marks). In
terms of the musical outcomes, which are assessed under the first three of the Assessment Criteria,
the issues involved overlap intentionally with those assessed for Component 43.
Candidates are required to submit one composition and one arrangement. One piece must be a
sequenced performance and the other a multi-track recording, but candidates have a free choice as to
which form of submission they will use for which piece.
Although the Syllabus makes no stipulation about the style of compositions, it is anticipated that
candidates who choose this component will normally compose music that does not lend itself to
conventional notation. If they wish to compose in a style that can best be represented through staff
notation, they need to consider whether they really ought to be offering Component 43 instead.
Arrangements must always involve a creative reworking of the original stimulus. A transcription for
string quartet of a Bach keyboard fugue, in which the only change from the original is the use of four
string players rather than a single keyboard, does not count as an arrangement for these purposes.
The original stimulus must be submitted alongside the arrangement, preferably in the form of a
score, so that it is possible to judge the extent of the candidate’s own compositional input into the
arrangement.
Recordings submitted for this component must be on CDs, in a format which allows them to be
played on standard domestic CD players. Recordings must not be submitted in any format that can
be played only through a computer, nor in any format that requires particular software for playback
(e.g. iTunes, Windows Media). However, in addition to the audio CDs, the sequenced piece must be
submitted as a MIDI file: teachers are particularly asked to note the requirement for sequenced pieces
to be submitted in two different formats.
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