Admission requirements for MA studies - Violin

 

 

1. A scale through 4 octaves with triad arpeggiation  - from Flesch, Bloch, Giles, etc. - in moderato and presto tempos.

 

2. Double stops - third, sixth, octave - in tempo chosen by the candidate at least until the 6th position.

 

3. One of the following from J. S. Bach Partitas for Solo Violin:

 

G minor Adagio and Fugue,

 or

A minor Grave and Fugue,

 or

C major Adagio and Fugue,

 or

D minor Chaconne

 

4. One etude by Paganini

5. The first movement with cadence of a violin concerto by one of the following composers: Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Bartók: 2nd violin concerto

 

 

 

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.

  
Music was and is an essential part of daily life in Hungary: the folk music of the various regions, the gypsy music that was absorbed into the national bloodstream, the native and foreign art-music, and the café music that was a combination of all these elements and others as well. All this explains why a country whose population, even today, is barely over ten million has produced so many musicians and so much outstanding music. I am grateful for having been born and trained there. (Sir Georg Solti)