New Zealand Scholarship Music Assessment case studies
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New Zealand Scholarship Music is an award administered by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA), the government body that also manages NCEA. It sits within the New Zealand Scholarship programme, a set of awards that recognise top-performing secondary students. The New Zealand Scholarship Music Assessment case studies are 5 cases and about 3,327 words.
1The Ambiguous Slur in a Romantic Piano Trio
Amelia is preparing a 10-minute analytical presentation and a 1,500-word essay on the first movement of a Romantic piano trio. She has two modern editions and a low-resolution facsimile.
521 words, about 3 min2Art-Song Draft: Strophic Safety versus Through-Composed Risk
Ravi has five weeks to compose a three-minute art song for mezzo-soprano (range A3–F5) and piano for a portfolio. The prescribed text is a 16-line poem in four quatrains: a calm first stanza, an angry second, a nostalgic third, and a quiet final couplet.
699 words, about 3 min3Archival Recording, Community Consent, and a Festival Deadline
Tane is composing a five-minute work for string quartet and fixed media for a public festival. He wants to use a 47-second excerpt from a 1963 field recording of a Cook Islands drum-dance item held in a university archive.
694 words, about 3 min4Recital Programme: Baroque Ornamentation and Contemporary Risk
Li is a flautist preparing a 25-minute recital including a Handel sonata movement, a unaccompanied contemporary work, and a newly commissioned piece. The Handel slow movement is marked Adagio; her edition includes no written ornaments, but the continuo part has figured bass.
695 words, about 3 min5Adapting a Student Composition for an Intermediate Ensemble
Kiri is music director of a 24-player intermediate school ensemble. A Year 12 composer, Jonah, has written a five-minute work, Tidal, for full symphonic band, but the ensemble has only two flutes, one clarinet, three saxophones, two trumpets, one trombone, piano, bass guitar and drum kit.
718 words, about 4 min