Controlled Assessment
Students must work individually to create two contrasting compositions. They may choose their own brief, compositional style and resources. One of the compositions must relate to one of the core or optional areas of study. The combined duration for the two compositions should be 3–6 minutes. Students must submit their composition in the form of a recorded performance (which may be live or sequenced) and/or a score. The teacher marks the composition and we moderate it. It is worth 30 percent of the final award.
Students must also complete a composition log for each composition that:
- describes their chosen brief and their response to the brief;
- sets out their intentions in relation to the brief;
- clearly identifies the relationship of the composition to the area of study chosen; and
- lists all technological hardware and software used in the realisation, composition or notation of the composition.
Students should make regular entries in their composition log that notes updates to each composition. Teachers must use each composition log to verify the authenticity of the work of each candidate on at least three occasions during the course.
Although the log is not formally assessed, centres must submit the log for each candidate composition as evidence of the composition process.