Unit 4 2011 exemplar tunes - TOP MARKS examples

This is a picture of Miles Davis, why? Because he was cool...oh, and wrote great tunes..

Here are three examples of Unit 4 compositions that fell into the 30-26 marks band which means that the compositions were judged as follows:

• The composition is musically stimulating, interesting and satisfying.
• The candidate demonstrates the successful and imaginative creation of musical ideas in relation to the Areas of Study selected.
• There is a sense of completeness in the music and there is evidence of development of the musical ideas.
• Writing for instruments, voices and sound sources is idiomatic.
• The score is accurate and contains detailed performance directions appropriate to the chosen style of the music.

So what does all this mean? Well, for marks to fall into this band they must have the WOW FACTOR, A CONVINCING SENSE OF STYLE, EXCELLENT WRITING FOR INSTRUMENT, STRONG STRUCTURE and a WELL PRESENTED AND ACCURATE SCORE/WRITE-UP.

The examples below contain a wide variety of stylistic influence but should help to give you a guide to what would be expected of top quality coursework.