DETAILED PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS

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Entrance examintations for candidates who declare the choice of the speciality brass band conducting (bachelor’s degree):

Stage 1. The core subject examination

The conducting of prepared pieces of music and a test of conducting aptitude – a practical examination
• two instrumental pieces of a varied character, including agogic, articulatory and dynamic changes (from memory). The candidate’s presentation will take place with the accompanist performing the instrumental part on the piano.
• a presentation of conducting diagrams (for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• an oral statement regarding the candidate’s interests relating to brass band conducting

Stage 2. Supplementary examinations

1. ear training – an oral practical examination
• An aural analysis of complex chord structures (intervals, triads and tetrads from the curriculum of secondary music schools).
• Harmonic interpretation of a musical fragment performed on the piano, heard by the candidate.
• Analysing simple and compound time signatures and performing a two-part polyrhythm.
• A polyphonic exercise: performing two plans from a given polyphony – one with the voice, the other on the piano.

2. harmony – an oral practical examination (the level of knowledge corresponding to the level of the secondary music school is required)
• A harmonic analysis of the provided soprano (proposed interpretation in functional harmonics)
• Performing harmonization of the provided soprano on the piano (in four-part or other texture).
• Performing the provided modulation on the piano (diatonic, chromatic or enharmonic) – in any manner.
• A harmonic analysis of a musical text fragment (classicism, romanticism).

3. playing a wind instrument of the candidate’s choice – a practical examination
• three pieces from various periods performed from memory