National 5

The National 5 Music Course involves performing music, creating original music using compositional methods and music concepts, and developing knowledge and understanding of music and musical literacy.  Ideally you are building on a successful completion of National 4, or in some cases BGE, Music before starting this course.

There are three areas of assessment at the end of the course:

Performance on two instruments

Composition

Understanding question paper

All skills and learning lead towards the Higher Music course.

Possible careers after studying music include:

  • music therapist
  • musician
  • primary / secondary / private music (or instrumental) teacher
  • arts administrator
  • event manager
  • radio producer
  • artist agent

SQA Subject Page for National 5 Music: www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/47391.html

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