Test material for the Department of Sound Engineering

• Knowledge of the media
  • oral - test of candidates' predisposition to the sound engineering profession, their general sonar sensitivity and imagination, sensitivity to sonar colour and general knowledge of culture and the media;
  • written - selection of one of several subjects concerning familiarity with musical works for the cinema, theatre, television and radio musical recordings, history of culture including historical background.
  
  
  
• Ear training and harmony
  
  • written - dictation: memory, harmonic, three-part, correction of errors in a musical text, melody harmonising;
  • oral - singing at sight, recognition of chord types and harmonic combinations, playing cadenzas, progressions and modulations.
  
  
  
• Mathematics and physics - written and oral
  material - high school, new school-leaving examination ("matura"), advanced course
  • mathematics - trigonometry, function property analysis and domain identification, equations and inequalities, trigonometric equations, calculus of probability
    written - 5-6 problems
  • physics - physical units, mechanics, optics, acoustics, electricity
    written - 2 to 3 problems
  
  
  
• Instrument
  
  • presentation of prepared program (any three pieces, preferably representing different styles) on a chosen instrument (agreed upon beforehand with the Department Office). The candidate's musicality will be the main focus of assessment, not technical proficiency.
  
  
  
• Audiometric examination
  To make our appointment please contact the Chair of Music Acoustics, tel. (+48 22) 8277241 ext. 232.

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music