Senior Cycle Music

SENIOR CYCLE.

Leaving Certificate Music involves a series of interrelated musical activities within each of the three core areas of musical experience - performing, composing and listening. In performing, students choose from a variety of individual and/or group performing activities. In composing, students develop an understanding of musical structure and form, while the listening component provides for rich aural experiences through exposure to music of different periods, styles and genres.

The structure of the syllabus follows the Junior Certificate outline with three essential activities in performing, composing, and listening. Supporting skills and studies, e.g. music reading, analysis, dictation, historical and contextual knowledge, are included under one or more of these headings. Each student is required to study all three essential activities.

At Ordinary and Higher level music, each essential activity is allocated a 25 per cent weighting. The remaining 25 per cent can be chosen as follows:

Performing 50% Composing 25% Listening 25%

Performing 25% Composing 50% Listening 25 %

Performing 25% Composing 25% Listening 50% .

The modes of assessment already in use for Leaving Certificate music will continue to be used to examine this syllabus, i.e.