GCSE Music Performance

Performance
expectations
You will have a class performance
lesson Thursday (week B)
You should bring your instrument to
every performance lesson
You should practice at home every
day and discuss the GCSE
requirements with your instrumental
teacher

Performance 1
assessment
11th November your performance at the recital
will be recorded
The piece you play can be anything you like
You should feel confident playing the piece and it
should show of what your instrument/voice can
do
It can be a solo or group performance as long as
you have a significant part

How is it marked?
Your teachers will mark your work during
the performance and it will be moderated
by examiners.
1. Fluency & technical control
2. Communication/interpretation
3. Difficulty

Choose your piece

carefully!
It should be of the hardest level that you
can play well
Picking something really easy will lose
difficulty marks
Picking something too hard might mean you
play poorly and lose fluency/technical marks
Please, please, please get advice about your
piece from me or your instrumental teacher!

Todays task!
You should all have your instrument with you and have completed
some research (HW) about it.
In order to give you some practice at being in front of other people you
are going to demonstrate your instrument and its capabilities to us.
2 minute demonstration on:
how your instrument works
how it makes a sound
the types of sound possible
specialist techniques (strumming, picking, bowing, etc)
the range
styles (can you play us a musical extract to demonstrate different types of
music possible on your instrument?)
anything else to make your demonstration interesting
Optional: You can work in groups (2-4) but ONLY with people who play the
same instrument.

Aims & objectives

All students must:
Be able to identify the capabilities of their own instrument
Give a demonstration of a few instrumental techniques to
the class
Some students should:
Be able to identify and explain the capabilities of their own
instrument & identify features of other instruments
Give a demonstration (with musical examples) on their
instrument to the class
Some students could:
Identify, explain and discriminate between the features of
their own and others instruments
Give a confident and interesting demonstration on their
instrument to the class & support others during the lesson.

Todays task!

You have 15
minutes!

Ongoing HW task
Please write this in your planners it is
ongoing but you are expected to have
made a definite decision by 9th October.
Choose a piece for performance 1,
considering the criteria/mark scheme
shown to you today. Ask your music
teacher for advice and practice it ready to
perform to the class in a few weeks.