Music Education (B.A.) – Classical

Music theory

• Write single notes in different clefs
• Identify and build intervals from the exact notation
• Identify chords (name and key)
• Identify keys from three melody fragments
• Write scales (major / minor / church modes)
• Realize a four-part cadence in piano texture

Ear training

• Intervals – played individually from one note each (write down notes and names)
• Melodic dictation, 4 bars
• Writing down chords (played from a constant note, triads and seventh chords)
• Rhythmic dictation (2 bars, tapped)
• Aural analysis of an example from the repertoire (played from CD, approx. 1 minute, played twice)

Major

• 3 pieces from 3 eras of your choice
• (1 piece composed after 1910)
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject

• 2 pieces from different eras

Voice

a) Voice as major:

• Performance of a self-chosen program (songs and arias, usually from three eras); piano accompaniment is provided by the Institute of Music (approx. 15 min.)
• Performance of a self-chosen folk song or children’s song without accompaniment or starting note (approx. 3 min.)
• Sight-singing an easy piece (approx. 3 min.)

b) Music theory/ear training:

• Written exam in Classical music theory/ear training

c) Piano:

• 2 self-chosen pieces suited to your level (approx. 5 min.)

Major

• 3 pieces from different eras
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject

• Two works from different eras

Major 2–3 solo pieces from different eras

• e.g. G.F. Händel - Tema con Variazioni,
• J.L. Dussek - Sonata in C minor op. 2,
• M. Tournier - Au Matin
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject 2 pieces from different eras

• e.g. C. Debussy - Premiere Arabesque
• J.L. Dussek - Six Sonatines

Major 

• 3 solo pieces (concertos or sonatas) from 3 eras
• various scales
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject 

• 1 solo piece or 1 movement from a concerto or sonata
• 1 étude (e.g. by Huth, Kopprasch, Maxime-Alphonse, Müller)

Major

• 3 pieces from 3 eras of your choice
• (1 piece composed after 1910)
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject

• 2 pieces from different eras

Major

• 4 pieces from at least 3 eras:
• 1 piece after 1910
• 1 étude of your choice
• 1 Classical work (one movement of it)
• 1 polyphonic work
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject

• 2 easy to moderately difficult pieces of your choice from different eras (including one polyphonic work)

1. Before the examination

At least three weeks before the examination, submit the following work:

• Three of your own compositions for different ensembles

2. Written exam in music theory and ear training (Classical)

3. Major subject examination (approx. 60 minutes)

a) Major (colloquium) approx. 45 minutes

1. Presentation of one of the three works submitted
2. Analysis of a work from the 20th or 21st century

b) Ear training approx. 15 minutes

1. Sight-singing (major/minor tonality)
2. Rhythm prima vista
3. Identifying intervals, triads and seventh chords
4. Playing back an interval sequence/cadence/sequence

Major 3 pieces from different eras

• e.g. Koussevitzky Valse miniature
• e.g. Capuzzi Concerto in F major
• e.g. Frescobaldi Canzoni
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject 2 pieces from different eras

• e.g. Simandl Étude (from “30 Etüden”)
• e.g. Saint-Saëns Karneval der Tiere “Der Elefant”

Major

• 3 pieces from 3 eras of your choice
• (1 piece composed after 1910)
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject

• 2 pieces from different eras

Major

• 3 pieces from 3 eras
• e.g. B.Marcello Sonata
• e.g. P.Hindemith Sonata
• e.g. Sachse Concerto
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject

• 1 piece of your choice
• 1 étude (e.g. Kopprasch)

Major

• 3 pieces from 3 eras of your choice
• (1 piece composed after 1910)
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject

• 2 pieces from different eras

Major

• 3 pieces (movements) from 3 eras
• e.g. B. Bonneau Suite
• e.g. P. Maurice Tableaux de Provence
• e.g. J.B. Singelee Concertino or Solo de concert
• e.g. G. Lacour Douze Esquisses
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject

• 2 easier pieces (movements) from 2 eras
• e.g.  Rungis/Meurice Quatre Pieces
• e.g.  G.Lacour étude from volume 2

Major

• A work/étude for snare drum
• A work/étude for marimba or vibraphone (4 mallets preferred)
• A work/étude for drum set or set-up
• A work/étude for timpani

Supplementary subject

One instrument of your choice:

• A work/étude for snare drum
• A work/étude for drum set or set-up
• A work/étude for marimba or vibraphone (preferred)

Major

• 2 pieces from different eras
• e.g. Neruda or Hummel trumpet concerto (1st movement)
• e.g. Balay Andante and Allegretto or Goedicke Concert Étude
• 1 étude (e.g. by Concone, Bordogni or Arban, Charlier)
• Sight-reading a simple piece

Supplementary subject

• A simple solo piece or one movement from a concerto or sonata
• 1 étude (e.g. by Concone)

Major

• 2 pieces of your choice from different eras
• e.g. D.Shostakovich  Polka for tuba and piano
• e.g. P.Hindemith Sonata (1st movement)
• e.g. a movement from a transcribed horn concerto by W.A.Mozart or R.Strauss
• 1 étude (e.g. Kopprasch)

Supplementary subject

• 1 piece of your choice
• 1 étude (e.g. Kopprasch)

Major 3–4 works from different eras (single movements also possible), including:

• 1 work from the 20th century
• 1 slow  and 1 fast movement  of a Baroque work
• 1 movement from a Classical or Romantic work
• (e.g. concertos: Viotti, Rode, Haydn, Mozart
• e.g. sonatas: Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Dvorak or a concert piece)
• 1 étude by Rode or Kreutzer

Supplementary subject

• 2 performance pieces e.g. G.F.Telemann Concerto in G major
• e.g. Eccles Sonata in G minor

Major 3–4 works from different eras (single movements also possible), including:

• 1 work from the 20th century
• 1 movement from a Classical or Romantic sonata (or concerto)
• e.g. Fauré: Elegie; Eccles: Sonata; Haydn: Concerto in D major
• e.g. (Schott 1333); Brahms: Sonata in E minor etc.
• 1 slow and 1 fast movement from Bach’s solo suites (1–4)
• 1 étude  e.g. from the 40 études “Hohe Schule des Violoncellospiels” by D. Popper, op. 73

Supplementary subject 2 easier pieces from different eras (1 piece from the 20th century)

• e.g. Breval Sonata in C major
• e.g. P.Hindemith 3 leichte Stücke