Assessment Guide: The Contemporary Music-Maker (HL only)

This component is for Higher Level (HL) students only. Standard Level students do not complete it. It is the additional component that distinguishes the HL course, and it carries a substantial share of the HL grade.

What this task is

The Contemporary Music-Maker is an internally assessed, self-directed real-world project undertaken over an extended period. Working as an integrated researcher, creator, and performer, you design and carry out a substantial music-making project with a genuine real-life purpose and context—music intended to function in an actual setting, for an actual audience or use—and you present the project together with a documented account of how you planned, developed, and realized it. The component tests not on