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    L3MUS L3 Music 20 credits Yr: 13
    4 credits externally assessed and 16 credits internally assessed. This is a university approved subject.
    Costs:
    Performance lessons are an essential part of the course and may incur costs. Student workbook $20 for external theory exam preparation.
    Prerequisites:
    Instrumental ability equivalent to four years of itinerant tuition or at the discretion of the HOD Music.
    Learning Strategies:
    Individual and group performance skills developed in conjunction with private music tutors. Where possible, students will receive free instrument tuition. Performances will be video recorded. Differentiated course tailored to the student can include harmonic and tonal convention, external analysis of a set work and composition.
    Main Areas of Study:
    Students may choose to:
    • Create compositions, using secure technical and musical skills and technologies to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings.
    • an analysis of a set work
    • Present performances of music, individually and collaboratively, demonstrating interpretative understandings
    • Analyse significant expressive features and stylistic conventions and technologies in a range of music, using practical and theoretical knowledge.
    • Perform two pieces on a second instrument (optional).