DETAILED PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS

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Entrance examintations for candidates who declare the choice of the speciality Composition (Bachelor’s degree):

STAGE 1. The core subject examination – two components:

• a review of the candidate’s compositions; preferred various ensembles; the required scores should be carefully prepared, legible, with all necessary details, with correct musical notation; it is permitted to present recordings of compositions;

(minimum number of compositions: 3)

• a test of creative and technical aptitude, testing the knowledge of instrumental basics, composition techniques, major composers and works of music of the 20th and 21st century, the identification of artistic interests – an oral examination

STAGE 2. Supplementary examinations:

• harmony – an oral practical exam (the level of knowledge corresponding to the level of the secondary music school is required)
1. A proposal of the functional interpretation and harmonization of the provided soprano.
2. Performing harmonization of the provided melody line on the piano (in four-part or any other texture)
3. Performing the provided modulation on the piano (diatonic, chromatic or enharmonic – at the candidate’s option).
4. A harmonic analysis of a musical text fragment (classicism, romanticism – piano literature).

• ear training – an oral practical examination
(the required scope of skills and knowledge (curricular scope): corresponding to the level of the secondary music school)
1. An aural analysis of chord structures (intervals, triads and tetrads in melodic and/or harmonic sequence).
2. Harmonic interpretation of a musical fragment performed on the piano, heard by the candidate.
3. Analysing simple and compound time signatures and performing a two-part polyrhythm.
4. Singing a phrase of several bars or a polyphonic exercise: performing two plans from a given polyphony – one with the voice, the other on the piano.

• sight-reading on the piano – a practical examination