GCSE Music Grade B or 6 or Grade 5 Practical and Theory (or equivalent knowledge and skills)
Studying A level Music allows you to take your ability to perform, compose and appraise a wide range of music to the next level of sophistication and depth.
The AQA A Level Music (7272) course provides you with the opportunity to continue your journey as a musicologist, a composer and a performer. As at GCSE level, you will perform, create and listen to music in different styles and contexts, although at a greater level of mastery. This particular course provides a higher weighting to performing that most specifications, it provides you with the challenge of composing to a brief and the opportunity of composing freely, and it also affords you the opportunity to shape the content of the listening paper, depending on your preferences. All students analyse some core repertory from the western classical tradition, but then have a choice of two areas of study from a range of six, including pop music, music for media, music for theatre, jazz, contemporary traditional music, and art music since 1910.
The exams are sat at the end of Year 13. There are four question papers:
Studying A Level Music most directly prepares you for future study in Music, or in each of the three areas of the course. Apart from developing broadly as a musician, this qualification will promote and extend your skills of analysis, presentation, creativity, collaboration, and communication, which are sought after skills in both undergraduate and professional environments.