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Music
STUDY LEVEL CONTACT DETAILS
A level Alison Richards, Head of Department
[email protected]
This course is great if you enjoy playing and composing music and have a desire to learn
more about how it actually works. You will enhance your performance and creative
composition skills and develop your understanding and appreciation of a wide variety of
musical styles and genres.
Music students can enjoy some of the best facilities available with dedicated practice
rooms, a recital room, a range of musical instruments, recording studios and the latest
computer technology. There are also opportunities to perform at prestigious venues
across Cheshire.
What will I study? Co-curricular activities?
You will enhance your performance
skills and composition skills and
develop a deeper understanding
of a number of specific musical
styles and genres. these will include
vocal and instrumental music; music
for film; popular music and jazz;
fusions; and new directions. Creative
composition tasks will ultimately
lead towards the compilation of
a small portfolio of original work,
and the development of practical
performance skills will result in a
showcase recital at the end of the
course. The concert band, jazz band and
Wittonian Singers rehearse weekly
and perform regularly. There are also
opportunities for smaller chamber
ensembles and groups (e.g. woodwind
and strings) to rehearse together.
It is hoped that music students
will contribute fully towards the
extra-curricular musical activities
available, both as performers and
even as directors. Indeed, over the
past two years students have led a
brass ensemble, saxophone group
and folk group, all of which have
then performed at the main
College concerts.
Classroom activities are necessarily
varied. It is very important that
wherever possible, new concepts
and ideas are explored practically
as well as theoretically, in order to
enhance understanding.
that will be of use in other subjects,
as well as in Higher Education and
eventual employment. A number
of past A level Music students
have gone on to gain coveted
places at specialist music colleges,
conservatoires and Oxbridge, as well
as highly competitive courses such
as medicine.
An appreciation and understanding
of music is also something, of
course, that you can keep with
you and enjoy for a lifetime.
Where might it lead?
Music is an incredibly diverse subject
and allows you to develop a wide
variety of highly marketable skills
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