Test material for the Department of Music Education

Speciality: music ensemble conducting

• Aural training
  • written - dictation: two-voice, memory, harmonic, error correction
  • oral - test of mastery in singing at sight, test of ability to identify melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures
  
  
• Conducting and vocal predisposition test
  • a choir piece a capella for at least three voices (by heart);
  • a piece (or part of a cyclic piece) for string orchestra (the candidate must bring the score and piano transcription to the examination);
  • performance of a song (light song) with accompaniment (by heart) (the candidate must bring two copies of the score to the examination)
  
  
• Selected instrument
  rendering of the program prepared for the examination:
  • etude
  • polyphonic piece
  • sonata allegro (part of a sonata or a concerto movement)
  • optional piece

• Ear training
  • written
    - dictation: 2-voice, memory, harmonic, error correction
  • oral
    - test of mastery in signing at sight;
    - test of ability to identify melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures.
  
  
• Conducting and vocal predisposition test
  a choir piece (at least three voices) a capella or accompanied by an instrument, classic repertory or jazz or popular repertory (by heart) (the candidate must bring the score to the examination);
  performance of a song (jazz piece or light song) with accompaniment (by heart) (the candidate must bring two copies of the score to the examination)
  
  
• Selected instrument and elements of improvisation
  
  • prepared program presentation:
    1. etude
    2. polyphonic piece
    3. sonata allegro (part of a sonata or concerto movement)
    4. free piece
  • elements of improvisation based on a jazz or popular piece

• Organ
  prepared program presentation
  • A pre-Bach piece
  • J. S. Bach - prelude and fugue
  • J. S. Bach - extreme sonata movement
  • J. S. Bach - chorale with cantus firmus (figured)
  • pptional piece
  
  
• Aural training
  • written - dictation: 2-voice, memory, harmonic, error correction
  • oral - test of mastery in singing at sight, test of ability to identify melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures
  
  
• Conducting and vocal predisposition test
  • a choir piece (at least two voices) a capella (by heart) (the candidate must bring the score to the examination);
  • performance of a song (or light song) with accompaniment (by heart) (the candidate must bring two copies of the score to the examination).

• Rhythmics
  • a chain of rhythmic themes in beats 4/4, 5/4, 12/8;
  • exercises in metrohythmic according to the music high school syllabus
  • two-voice polyrhythmics;
  • eighth and sixteenth additional rhythms introduced homogeneously and heterogeneously to a four-beat rhythmic theme;
  • an outline of movement interpretation of a piano miniature set by the examination committee (choice of one of two miniatures);
  • free movement improvisation to improvised movement
  
  
• Aural training
  • written - dictation: 2-voice, memory, harmonic, error correction
  • oral - test of mastery in singing at sight, test of ability to identify melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures
  
  
• Piano and piano improvisation with elements of harmony
  • estudy, polyphonic piece, sonata allegro, free piece improvisation;
  • accompaniment to a popular Polish melody provided a vista (twice);
  • miniatures to walk (march), run and skip to;
  • in quick tempo, exposing one?s piano-playing skills, in a drawn key and any metre;
  • polyphonising miniature in the baroque style in a set metre (3/4, 6/8, 4/4) and any key elements of classic harmony;
  • practical piano realisation of problems set by the examination committee, gleaned from the secondary music school syllabus.

• Classic dance test
  the candidate must master: the ballet repertory, components, e.g., "petit adagio", "grand allegro", poses, types of pirouettes, port de bras, pas de bourrée
• Folk dance test
  the candidate must master, among other things, the development of various forms and functions, steps and figures of Polish national and regional dances
• Character dance test
  the candidate must, among other things:
  - be able to attribute dance forms to particular nations
  - be familiar with the characteristic features of Russian, Hungarian and Spanish dances
• Modern dance test
  the candidate must, among other things, be familiar with the basic principles of Martha Graham's technique, especially contraction-release and know how to apply these principles at each stage of the lesson.

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music