Higher

Music · Higher

Performing, composing and listening, with a listening paper on musical concepts and styles.

The course

What Music is about

Music combines performing, composing and understanding: you perform set pieces, create your own music, and listen to and analyse music from Scottish, classical and popular traditions.

Where it leads

What it offers you

Performance and creative skills that lead to music, sound production and teaching, and to a practice you can keep for life.

The archive

Papers & marking schemes

2022–2026

2026

3 files

2025

3 files

2024

3 files

2023

3 files

2022

3 files

SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Music Higher on sqa.org.uk.

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