Music: Solo Performance

Print music
Editions
Repeats, cadenzas and tutti passages
Improvisation, ornamentation and embellishments

Print music

Students may use print music except in the case of Voice – Classical and Voice – Contemporary Popular where the complete performance should be sung from memory.

Students should comply with the requirements of current copyright laws regarding the use of print music. For information on copyright guidelines, schools and teachers are advised to refer to the following publications:

Music Copyright for Schools (AMCOS) (www.amcos.com.au)
Copyright for Victorian Schools (Department of Education and Early Childhood Development) (www.education.vic.gov.au)

(Note: These links take you out of the VCAA site to external sites that are not maintained by VCAA.)

Editions

Students and teachers should note the following:

Where works have an arranger stated, then the edition listed is the only one permitted. This is essential as the level of difficulty will vary between arrangements. No other arranger or arrangement of the same work is approved.
Where more than one edition of a work is available this may be indicated by use of the term ‘any edition’. Alternately specific editions may be listed. Different editions may

contain minor variations from each other, for example in detail of fingering, minor changes in phrasing
be identical to each other, but issued under a different publisher’s imprint

Where one or more editions are listed for a specific work, other editions which are essentially identical to those listed may also be used, for example the same print music for a song may be included in a number of anthologies issued by the same publisher.
For works in the Baroque and Classical stylistic eras, and prior stylistic eras, the editions listed are ‘recommended’. If other editions are used, their accuracy should be checked against the editions listed.
For works from the Romantic and post-Romantic stylistic eras, the editions are for identification purposes. Any other edition of these works may be used.
Some works may be available from the same publisher as single title print music and within an anthology(ies). The two editions should be checked to ensure that they are in fact identical.

Repeats, cadenzas and tutti passages

Performance of repeats, cadenzas and tutti passages is optional unless otherwise stated for specific works.

Improvisation, ornamentation and embellishments

Some works have a section that is not fully notated. For these works further advice is provided in the specific lists.

Ornamentations and embellishments are encouraged in the performance of Baroque works.