If you have a passion for performance or composition and wish to develop your skills further, AGCE Music offers opportunities to study music from Baroque Keyboard works to Music for Film and Television. During AS level music you will study the compositional techniques of Bach, analytical areas of study include Vocal Music, Fusions and Popular Music and Jazz. A2 offers the opportunity for you to further develop both composition and performance. On taking this course you will be expected to take part in school performances and musicals as part of the requirements for the course. Students that have studied Music have gone on to a range of destinations after Sixth Form such as: study BA Honours degrees in Music at specialist Music Universities including London College of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire, study a BA Honours degrees in Music Technology at Sheffield, Keele and Wolverhampton, with a number of former students now full-time classroom and peripatetic music teachers.
Edexcel AGCE Music (9MU01/9MU02/9MU03)
Component 1 ƒ?? Performing ƒ?? 8 minute recital (30%)
Component 2 ƒ?? Composing ƒ?? two compositions one to a brief or free composition and one technical study (40%)
Component 3 ƒ?? Appraising ƒ?? 2 hour written examination