Admission requirements for MA studies - Bassoon

 

 

 

1. Two etudes of contrasting style chosen by the candidate from the following:

    Bitsch: Vingt etudes

    Mortel : 7 etudes

    Orefici :  Studit di Bravura

 

2. Two movements of a Baroque sonata.

 

3. Two movements of a classical or romantic concerto – to be played from memory.

 

4. One 20th century piece.

 

 

 

 

 

General Admission Requirements – MA

 

Written examination:

 Bass harmonisation: harmonisation of a bass line of cca. 10 notes, indication of the accords with figures.

 Analysis: formal analysis of the opening movement of a sonata from the stylistic circle of Haydn and Mozart piano sonatas.

 

 Exam in general music studies:

 a. Identification of 10 music pieces - possibly composer and title, but at least the epoch or style and identification or

    the genre.

 b. Explanation and interpretation of 10 music terms, concepts, titles, etc.

  
Bartók presented an austere, forbidding front to the world and even in those years, when he was still in his mid-forties, his reputation was daunting. Although he had received little official recognition and was widely regarded as a raving radical, we music students knew exactly how important he was, and we revered him. We were fully aware that there was an authentic genious teaching at our Academy. (Sir Georg Solti)