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Experimenting with music

IB Music Syllabus

SL & HL

This component focuses on creativity. You’ll experiment with new ideas, techniques, and styles, either by composing your own music or by improvising and performing. The goal is to explore unfamiliar areas of music.

In this topic, you will:

  • Analyse music to identify musical findings
  • Create music by composing short pieces or improvising in different styles.
  • Learn to specify the exact location of musical findings in the audio excerpts
  • Learn to specify the exact location of musical findings in scores (using bars/measures, beats, instruments/ voices or other markers, as appropriate)
  • Record and reflect on your experimentation process
  • Learn to identify extra-musical findings that are relevant to contextualize musical findingsexplain the implications of findings on practical exercises.
  • Learn to explain musical and extra-musical findings using accurate terminology

Exploring music in context

Presenting music

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