{"id":3427,"date":"2026-04-12T17:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/academic-guide-years-11-12\/music-extension-year-12\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:27:22","slug":"music-extension","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/academic-guide-years-11-12\/hsc\/hsc-subjects\/music-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Extension (Year 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><!-- section: section_text --><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prerequisites [Music 2 Preliminary Course]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exclusions: Music 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the HSC course, students will have the opportunity to deepen their musical knowledge, understanding and skills in interpretation and specialisations in performance, composition, or musicology. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Main Topics Covered<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The focus areas for study are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>HSC course\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interpretative practices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Major work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><!-- section: section_text --><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assessment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>WEIGHTING<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>INTERNAL ASSESSMENT<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>WEIGHTING<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Written examination \u00a0&#8211; Interpretive skills (consisting of written answers to musical stimuli) <br><br>Major work (Performance OR Composition OR Musicology)<\/td><td>20 <br><br><br><br><br>40 <br><br>20<\/td><td>Knowledge and understanding of Music context and Music language <br><br>Skills in extensive, independent Performance OR Composition OR Musicology<\/td><td>\u00a0 30 \u00a0 <br><br><br>70<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>100<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>100<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Description Prerequisites [Music 2 Preliminary Course] Exclusions: Music 1 In the HSC course, students will have the opportunity to deepen their musical knowledge, understanding and skills in interpretation and specialisations in performance, composition, or musicology. &nbsp; Main Topics Covered The focus areas for study are: Assessment EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING INTERNAL ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING Written examination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":3402,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3427","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3427\/revisions\/4085"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}