Create two arrangements for an ensemble
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You need to create two separate musical arrangements, each adapting existing music for a group of at least three different instruments or singers. Each arrangement should be written out as a proper notated score (using notation software or by hand), and you're being assessed on how well you've reworked the original music, used different instruments creatively, and structured your ideas.
You create two arrangements that are notated and clearly show how the music has been adapted for an ensemble, with at least three independent parts.
Your arrangements work well and show you understand your instruments — you make creative choices about which instruments play what, vary the texture effectively, and structure the musical ideas skilfully.
Your arrangements are convincing and imaginative, with sophisticated, idiomatic writing that suits each instrument perfectly, and they show real musical character and originality in how you've adapted the material.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.