Entrance Examination

Study Program B7507: Specialization in Pedagogy

Bachelor´s Degree

Entrance Examination

There are three programs of study in the Music Department:

  1. Music Education
  2. Instrumental Performance – Piano, Violin
  3. Choral Conducting

Applicants to each program of study must successfully complete one section to the entrance examination: the audition.

 

7507R046 Musical Instrument Oriented at Education

Piano 

The applicant will prepare and perform:

  • Major and minor scales and chords performed in four octaves.
  • 2 concert etudes (at least 1 by Chopin).
  • 1 Baroque composition, e.g. Bach: The Piano Welltempered, Three-part Sinfonias, Suites.
  • 1 quick movement from a classical sonata or classical variations (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven).
  • 1 Romantic composition.
  • 1 composition written in the 20th century.
  • Sight reading.
  • A folk song with the student´s own harmony accompaniment, and be able to transpose it into various keys.

Pieces are to be memorized.

Violin  

The applicant will prepare and perform:

  • Major and minor scales in three octaves, scales using double stop (3, 6, 8), chords.
  • 2 contrasting etudes that show variety in technique and expression (Campagnoli, Dancla, Dont, Fiorillo, Paganini, Wieniawski).
  • Bach: 1 – 2 parts from Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.
  • 2 compositions of contrasting character and style, e.g. concerts by Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bruch, sonatas by Beethoven and the like.
  • Sight reading.
  • Transposition of a folk song into various keys at sight.

Pieces are to be memorized.