Number
AS90267
Version
3
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Achievement Standard
Subject Reference
Music 2.4
Title
Create an instrumentation
Level
2
Subfield
Music
Domain
Making Music
Status
Credits
2
Expiring
Assessment
Internal
Status date
17 November 2011
This achievement standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take
place before the expiry date set out below.
Expiry date
31 December 2012
Date version published
17 November 2011
This achievement standard involves creating an instrumentation of a piece of music for an
ensemble of at least five independent parts.
Achievement Criteria
Achievement
Achievement with Merit
Achievement with
Excellence
 Create a workable
instrumentation that uses
and shows understanding
of instrumental techniques
and combinations.
 Create an effective
instrumentation that shows
some character, and
developed understanding
of instrumental techniques
and combinations.
 Create a convincing
instrumentation that shows
character and imagination,
developed understanding
and skilful use of
instrumental techniques
and combinations.
Explanatory Notes
1
This achievement standard is derived from The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum,
Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2000, Level 7 strand, Developing Ideas in
Music.
2
The task is an instrumentation one, not an arrangement. Students are therefore not
expected to create new material, although in some instances this may be appropriate
(eg adding a drum kit part, creating idiomatic accompaniment figures etc).
3
An instrumentation essentially involves the allocation of existing musical material to a
range of instruments sounding in combination.
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For assessment, the student is required to submit an instrumentation which includes
an audio recording, the original source material (eg piano reduction, audio recording),
and one of the following:

a score

annotated source material

detailed written description.
5
The task will require the instrumentation of approximately 32 bars from a piece of
music, for an ensemble of at least five independent parts.
6
An independent part is an instrumental or vocal line of music. A piano or keyboard
part counts as a single line.
7
Workable means that the instrumentation is able to be realised by the ensemble and
shows:

knowledge of instrument ranges

knowledge of instrument playing techniques

understanding of instrument combinations.
8
Effective means that the instrumentation shows:

knowledge of instrument ranges

knowledge of instrument playing techniques

developed understanding of instrument combinations and ensemble writing

idiomatic writing for each instrument

variety of textural density.
9
Convincing means that the instrumentation shows:

knowledge of instrument ranges

knowledge of instrument playing techniques

developed understanding of effective instrument combinations and ensemble
writing

imaginative and idiomatic writing

skilful use of textural density.
10
For assessment, appropriate tasks for instrumentation could be:

a piano piece for a small orchestra of single woodwinds and strings

a piano piece for a small jazz band

a hymn or chorale for a brass ensemble

a song for a rock group

a song for a vocal ensemble.
Replacement Information
This achievement standard has been replaced by AS91273.
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Quality Assurance
1
Providers and Industry Training Organisations must have been granted consent to
assess by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against
achievement standards.
2
Organisations with consent to assess and Industry Training Organisations assessing
against achievement standards must engage with the moderation system that applies
to those achievement standards.
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0226
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