Workshop Description

Waltons New School of Music’s two-hour Leaving Cert. Music Technology workshop covers all of the requirements of the Music Technology core activity at Higher Level (25% of total marks).

Through a combination of demonstrations and hands-on activities in our Music Technology Lab, students will learn all of the requirements for this activity, including:

• Stating the medium/system/software the student will use to input lines/parts/tracks and describing the edits he/she intends to make.
• Inputting, saving and retrieving a two-part score. For the exam, students will be asked to input all or part of each line/part/track, at the discretion of the examiner.
• Performing six edits. Edits should make musical sense.
• Producing a recorded or score version of the music. While the recording or score may be produced in advance on the day of the examination, the candidate will be required to demonstrate the procedure involved to the examiner.
• Playing two pieces from the standard electronic repertoire or compiling and playing to own backing track (at least 32 bars long).

Leaving Cert. Music Technology is available by group enrolment only, and there is a maximum of sixteen students per workshop (two per workstation).

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If individual students are interested in learning about the Leaving Cert. Music Technology option, they can take an Intensive Lesson in the subject. See Intensive Lessons for more information.[

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Health and Safety

The health and safety of both students and staff at the New School is of the utmost importance to us, and we have made a number of changes to the school, its equipment and our policies to make in-school tuition safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include:

• Perspex screens in every classroom.
• Installation of HEPA air filtration/purification units where necessary.
• Antiseptic dispensers available throughout the school.
• Cleaning and disinfection of both classroom instruments and furniture between lessons and classes.
• Regular cleaning of public spaces.

See our COVID-19 Safety Policy page for more information on what we have done, as well as the protocols we expect all in-school students and visitors to follow.

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