Intermediate 2 Music

Module 4.1 – Performing

Preparing a recital for live performance. Assessed by four-minute live performance at Grade 3 standard in March. Pieces must contrast and be chosen from set lists. The visiting examiner will sample your programme. (30 marks)

Module 4.2 – Performing 2

Preparing a recital for live performance. Assessed by four-minute live performance at Grade 3 standard in March. Pieces must contrast and be chosen from set lists. The visiting examiner will sample your programme. (30 marks)

Module 4.3 – Inventing

Preparing a product folio, containing an audio recording of two examples of individual candidate work each lasting a minimum of 1 minute, and each supported by a score or performance plan and by a programme note. The folio will be marked internally as PASS or FAIL and moderated by SQA. It will not contribute to the final grade.

Module 4.4 – Listening

A range of listening topics will be studied, supported by a listening diary. Assessed by a one-hour written examination on recorded extracts in May. (40 marks)

1. Programmes must have contrasting pieces; 2. Your whole programmes should come from agreed lists. Programmes need to be finalized in October and any pieces not on the list sent to SQA for approval.

If your piece is in a Grade 3 list for any of the examination boards (ABRSM, Trinity/Guildhall or London) , bring in the reference so we can print it out; this will make your piece acceptable to SQA. Note: in pieces like Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer it is the original version and not some simplified arrangement which must be played.

The full SQA syllabus can be found HERE
The SQA lists of pieces can be found HERE
The Associated Board lists of possible pieces can be found HERE
The Trinity/Guildhall lists of possible pieces can be found HERE
The Rockschool lists of possible pieces can be found HERE
The London College of Music lists of possible pieces can be found HERE

TIN WHISTLE

If you are doing tin-whistle, one of the pieces you can do is the Vivaldi Concerto Rv 97. The music with fingering can be downloaded here as a pdf file click and you can listen to it HERE . You can complete your programme with La Cucaracha : music here as a pdf file click and can be heard HERE . The Dvorak Allegretto is HERE