GCSE Music AQA,RSL Level 2 Certificate in Performance/Technology & Composition for Music Practitioners.
GCSE Music Course
Developing and applying the musical knowledge, understanding and skills set out in our GCSE specification can ensure your students form a personal and meaningful relationship with music. They will be encouraged to engage critically and creatively with a wide range of music and musical contexts, and reflect on how music is used in the expression of personal and collective identities.
The Subject content is divided into the three components:
Understanding music
Performing music
Composing music.
RSL Music courses
These qualifications provide vocationally relevant courses in popular music, which allow for progression into a higher level of study and/or the industry. They focus upon the recognition of achievement through the acquisition of knowledge and practical musical skills, as well as offering flexibility of unit selection.
The aim of these qualifications is to provide learners with the knowledge and range of skills needed to progress them towards being able to operate successfully as performing musicians and producers/composers.
Learners will:
• demonstrate knowledge of theoretical and contextual issues relating to music style, audience and the music industry;
• perform effectively on their instrument/voice;
• rehearse and display musicianship skills in a number of professional scenarios;
• Initiate and develop repertoire;
• understand relevant aspects of music technology.
Through developing the skills, knowledge and understanding outlined above, learners are provided with the basis for further development with the ultimate aim being the creation of a musician with the knowledge and skills-set to be able to perform and record music in a professional capacity (i.e. be a recording and performing artist).
