Mega Music Publisher
Mega Music Publisher
Germany's innovative new publisher combining educational music publishing and music technology, transforming how music is composed, published, taught, learned, and performed.
© 2018 by Rainer Langhans & Marcel Langhans.
Mega Music Publisher
Germany's innovative new publisher combining educational music publishing and music technology, transforming how music is composed, published, taught, learned, and performed.
© 2018 by Rainer Langhans & Marcel Langhans.
Mega Music Publisher
Germany's innovative new publisher combining educational music publishing and music technology, transforming how music is composed, published, taught, learned, and performed.
© 2018 by Rainer Langhans & Marcel Langhans.
Mega Music Publisher
Germany's innovative new publisher combining educational music publishing and music technology, transforming how music is composed, published, taught, learned, and performed.
© 2018 by Rainer Langhans & Marcel Langhans.
Mega Music Publisher
Germany's innovative new publisher combining educational music publishing and music technology, transforming how music is composed, published, taught, learned, and performed.
© 2018 by Rainer Langhans & Marcel Langhans.
Lesson 1
Introduction to Music Notation
IMPACT MUSIC ASSESSMENT
THEORY, PRACTICAL & MUSICAL PROGRESS
IMPACT ASSESSMENT — THEORY & PRACTICAL
IMPACT assessment is designed to document musical development over time rather than judge students through one isolated performance. Evidence is gathered through normal ensemble work, individual practical recordings and musical understanding tasks.
Personalised Progress Assessment (PPA) brings this evidence together so that grades are clear, defensible and based on what students actually demonstrate.
Performance, listening, notation, theory and creative application remain interconnected. Students work with shared musical material but may demonstrate progress through different instruments, pathways and levels of challenge.
Practical musicianship therefore contributes 80% overall, reflecting the ensemble-based nature of IMPACT, while the remaining 20% demonstrates musical understanding through listening, notation, theory and written or creative application.
RECOMMENDED ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING
1. ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE & MUSICIANSHIP — 40%
This assessment reflects the student's contribution during normal ensemble rehearsals and performances.
It is based on sustained evidence over time, not one final performance. Teachers consider how reliably students function as musicians within the ensemble and how their musicianship develops from their individual starting point.
The level of difficulty is considered relative to the student's musical pathway and instrument. A beginner performing a simple but essential part securely may demonstrate strong musicianship, while an experienced player is expected to work with appropriately greater musical and technical challenge.
WHAT THE TEACHER OBSERVES
2. Individual Practical Evidence — 40%
Individual practical evidence allows teachers to hear what each student can perform independently.
Students submit or record their current instrumental part at appropriate points during the curriculum. These recordings form part of a continuing portfolio rather than functioning as isolated examinations. IMPACT specifically supports the use of recordings and portfolios to make development visible over time.
EVIDENCE MAY INCLUDE
Students are not expected to reach an identical technical endpoint. Assessment recognises progress from the student's starting point, while still requiring increasing independence, accuracy and musical control.
PRACTICAL GRADE DESCRIPTORS
These descriptors apply across both Ensemble Performance & Musicianship and Individual Practical Evidence.
3. THEORY & MUSICAL UNDERSTANDING — 20%
Theory and Musical Understanding demonstrates that students understand the music they perform rather than simply reproducing notes. Evidence is gathered through short listening, notation, theory, score-reading and creative tasks connected directly to the practical repertoire.
The purpose is not to separate theory from practical music-making. Students are assessed on their ability to recognise, understand and apply musical concepts within the music they are learning.
EVIDENCE MAY INCLUDE
FINAL IMPACT GRADE
The final grade combines the three evidence streams:
HOW THE FINAL IMPACT GRADE IS CALCULATED
The final IMPACT grade combines evidence from the three assessment areas according to their weighting. The weighted contributions are added together to produce the final grade.
Example:
A student achieving Grades 7, 8 and 6 receives a weighted result of 7.2, which is reported as Grade 7.
