VCE Music Repertoire Performance case studies
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VCE Music Repertoire Performance Units 3 and 4 is one of the four Victorian Certificate of Education music sequences published by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority in the VCE Music Study Design, which has an accreditation period from 2023. It sits alongside VCE Music Units 1 and 2, VCE Music Contemporary Performance Units 3 and 4, VCE Music Inquiry Units 3 and 4, and VCE Music Composition Units 3 and 4. The VCE Music Repertoire Performance case studies are 5 cases and about 2,430 words.
1The Overrun Performance Program
A Year 12 student has prepared a 20-minute performance program for Unit 4 Outcome 1. Their intended set is: a 7-minute Romantic sonata movement, a 5-minute contemporary Australian work, and an 8-minute Baroque concerto movement, totalling 20 minutes exactly.
533 words, about 3 min2The Ensemble Balance Problem
A student performs a 6-minute work for flute and piano as part of their Unit 3 performance program. In the rehearsal room the balance is good, but in the school hall the piano lid is fully open and the flautist cannot be heard in the middle register during the louder piano passages.
492 words, about 2 min3The Memorisation Decision
A guitar student plans to perform a 5-minute solo work from memory for Unit 4, believing that memory performance will be viewed more favourably. In the first two full run-throughs, the student has three memory slips, all in the development section, and each time recovers but loses about four seconds.
490 words, about 2 min4The Program Order Question
A student's 15-minute Unit 3 program contains three works: a slow, sustained Renaissance transcription (4 minutes), a virtuosic 20th-century etude (5 minutes), and a lyrical Romantic song transcription (6 minutes). The student has ordered them Renaissance, etude, Romantic.
463 words, about 2 min5The Partial Program and the Injury
Two weeks before the Unit 4 assessed performance, a singer develops a vocal strain and is advised by a doctor to rest the voice for 10 days, leaving 4 days before assessment. The planned 18-minute program includes a demanding 6-minute aria near the top of the singer's range.
452 words, about 2 min