Adjudication and Assessment Criteria
The aim of the assessment process is to test the composers’ ability to conceive musical ideas, and to manipulate them in an inventive and individual way; develop materials and musical ideas into well-formed and coherent musical structures; and compose idiomatically for instruments and/or voices and communicate musical intentions clearly, economically and unambiguously.
The adjudicators will take into account the following assessment criteria:
Technique: ability to handle melody, harmony, rhythm, dynamics, articulation, texture, form, etc. effectively; idiomatic writing, evidencing knowledge and understanding of instruments and/or voices and their ranges, etc.
Musicality: the ability to conceive of interesting musical material and handle it effectively; to balance unity and integrity with variety and contrast; to sustain a musical argument over a given period of time.
Communication: the ability to communicate a convincing and confident musical statement.
Presentation: quality of production, layout, accuracy and legibility of scores.
The adjudicators will take into account the following assessment criteria:
Technique: ability to handle melody, harmony, rhythm, dynamics, articulation, texture, form, etc. effectively; idiomatic writing, evidencing knowledge and understanding of instruments and/or voices and their ranges, etc.
Musicality: the ability to conceive of interesting musical material and handle it effectively; to balance unity and integrity with variety and contrast; to sustain a musical argument over a given period of time.
Communication: the ability to communicate a convincing and confident musical statement.
Presentation: quality of production, layout, accuracy and legibility of scores.
