US 32305 Annotated exemplars

The following are sample answers for the three assessment tasks contained in the Teacher Guidelines for unit standard 32305. Holistic assessor commentaries for Achieved, Merit and Excellence are repeated for each task.

There are three tasks, however the two music scores required for 1.1 are spread between Task 1 and Task 2 below. The two scores are ‘The Greatest American Hero’ (Task 1) and ‘Inspired by Zeno’ (Task 2). Both scores are exemplars of instrumental-only scores, i.e. lyrics are not included.

Task 2 contains evidence for 1.2, namely “extracting and exporting conductor’s score and transposed individual parts”.

Task 3 contains a lead sheet entitled ‘Runaway’.

Teacher guidelines and assessment schedule - 32305 [PDF, 185 KB]

Task 1

Create and edit two music scores containing at least 32 bars each, with three different clefs that demonstrate complete musical forms using advanced features and functions of music notation software. One score will have up to four staves, and the other a minimum of five staves.

Task 2

Demonstrate processes used to create a notated score using the features of the music notation application.

Task 3

Create a lead sheet with a minimum of 32 bars.

Assessment support material - 32305 [PDF, 185 KB]

The candidate has applied knowledge to operate a music notation application.

All the performance criteria from the range 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 have been met.

Features limiting the grade are accuracy and stylistic consistency:

Layout has not been adjusted, notes are missing or entered incorrectly, instrument names missing from individual parts, drums entered in one voice, anacrusis is numbered as bar 1, some instrument parts edited but still have objects colliding, unused voices not hidden, coda and dynamics entered with incorrect text function, some chord symbols are missing.

The candidate has applied knowledge to operate a music notation application to create and edit music scores that contain a range of mostly accurate and stylistically consistent notation conventions.

All the performance criteria from the range 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 have been met.

Mostly Accurate: Minor inaccuracies in note input, instrument parts clear to read but not divided by section.

Stylistically Consistent: Drums entered in multiple voices, bar numbering starts after anacrusis, text entered correctly.

Features limiting the grade are:

Refined: Some unused voices not hidden, some objects colliding, bars and systems could be divided by section.

Publication Standard: Individual parts missing instrument names, lead sheet does not provide chord diagrams.

The candidate has applied knowledge of a music notation application to create and edit music scores that contain a range of accurate, refined and stylistically consistent notation conventions at publication standard.

All the performance criteria from the range 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 have been met.

Accurate: Represents composer's intentions.

Refined: Unused voices hidden, objects not colliding easy to read.

Stylistically Consistent: Drums entered in multiple voices, bar numbering starts after anacrusis, text entered correctly, bars and systems are divided by section.

Publication Standard: Instrument names added to individual parts, house style chosen to match genre, lead sheet provides chord diagrams.

The candidate has applied knowledge to operate a music notation application.

All the performance criteria from the range 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 have been met.

Features limiting the grade are accuracy and stylistic consistency:

Layout has not been adjusted, notes are missing or entered incorrectly, instrument names missing from individual parts, drums entered in one voice, anacrusis is numbered as bar 1, some instrument parts edited but still have objects colliding, unused voices not hidden, coda and dynamics entered with incorrect text function, some chord symbols are missing.

The candidate has applied knowledge to operate a music notation application to create and edit music scores that contain a range of mostly accurate and stylistically consistent notation conventions.

All the performance criteria from the range 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 have been met.

Mostly Accurate: Minor inaccuracies in note input, instrument parts clear to read but not divided by section.

Stylistically Consistent: Drums entered in multiple voices, bar numbering starts after anacrusis, text entered correctly.

Features limiting the grade are:

Refined: Some unused voices not hidden, some objects colliding, bars and systems could be divided by section.

Publication Standard: Individual parts missing instrument names, lead sheet does not provide chord diagrams.

The candidate has applied knowledge of a music notation application to create and edit music scores that contain a range of accurate, refined and stylistically consistent notation conventions at publication standard.

All the performance criteria from the range 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 have been met.

Accurate: Represents composer's intentions.

Refined: Unused voices hidden, objects not colliding easy to read.

Stylistically Consistent: Drums entered in multiple voices, bar numbering starts after anacrusis, text entered correctly, bars and systems are divided by section.

Publication Standard: Instrument names added to individual parts, house style chosen to match genre, lead sheet provides chord diagrams.

The candidate has applied knowledge to operate a music notation application to create a lead sheet.

Features limiting the grade are accuracy and stylistic consistency:

Layout has not been adjusted, objects colliding, some chord symbols are missing, triplets inconsistent.

The candidate has applied knowledge to operate a music notation application to create and edit music scores that contain a range of mostly accurate and stylistically consistent notation conventions.

Mostly Accurate: Minor inaccuracies, chords not always aligned with lyrics.

Stylistically Consistent: Lyrics and chords accurate.

Features limiting the grade are:

Refined: Layout needs further adjustment for clarity.

Publication Standard: Lead sheet does not provide chord diagrams.

The candidate has applied knowledge of a music notation application to create and edit music scores that contain a range of accurate, refined and stylistically consistent notation conventions at publication standard.

Accurate: Represents composer's intentions.

Refined: Objects not colliding, easy to read.

Stylistically Consistent: Text and chords aligned and entered correctly, bars and systems are clearly divided sections.

Publication Standard: Lead sheet provides chord diagrams; staves, lyrics aligned; layout edited to single page.