Test material for the Department of Choir Conducting, Music Education, Church Music, Rhythmics and Dance

BA Stud­ies

Major: MUSIC ARTISTIC EDUCATION (intra­mural studies)

Spe­cialty: Con­duct­ing Music Ensembles

- 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
• per­for­mance of a song (light song) with accom­pa­ni­ment (by heart)

- Selected instru­ment
ren­der­ing of the pro­gram pre­pared for the examination:

• etude
• a Baroque piece
• sonata alle­gro (part of a sonata or a con­certo movement)
• an optional piece

- Piano play­ing skills test (in case of other instru­ment) – per­form­ing two styl­is­ti­cally var­ied pieces cho­sen by the candidate

 

Spe­cialty: Rhythmics

- Rhyth­mics

• a chain of rhyth­mic themes in beats 4/4, 6/8
• two-voice polyrhyth­mics
• an out­line of move­ment inter­pre­ta­tion of a piano minia­ture set by the exam­i­na­tion com­mit­tee (choice of one of two miniatures)
• a free move­ment impro­vi­sa­tion to impro­vised music

- 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

• pre­pared pro­gramme presentation
  • study, poly­phonic piece, sonata alle­gro, free piece improvisation

• impro­vi­sa­tion
  • accom­pa­ni­ment to a song for children
  • minia­tures to walk (march), run and skip to
  • two-measure rhyth­mi­cal schemes
  • illus­tra­tion miniatures

• ele­ment of clas­si­cal harmony
  • prac­ti­cal ren­der­ing of the task given by the exam­i­na­tion com­mit­tee on the piano (sec­ondary music school pro­gramme material)

Major: CHURCH MUSIC (intra­mural studies)

Spe­cialty: Church Music

- Organ or piano (candidate’s choice)

• 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)
  • optional piece

• piano — pre­pared pro­gram presentation
  • two stud­ies with dif­fer­ent problems
  • J. S. Bach — pre­lude and fugue from Das Wohltem­perierte Klavier
  • D. Scar­latti — one sonata
  • sonata alle­gro
  • optional 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 the score for the examination).

 

Major: DANCE (extra­mural studies)

Spe­cialty: Bal­let Pedagogy

- Clas­si­cal dance test

• prac­tice: clas­si­cal dance lesson
• the­ory: the can­di­date must mas­ter: the bal­let reper­tory, com­po­nents, e.g., “petit ada­gio”, “grand alle­gro”, poses, types of pirou­ettes, port de bras, pas de bour­rée, etc.

- Folk dance test

• prac­tice: folk dance lesson
• the­ory: the can­di­date must mas­ter the devel­op­ment of var­i­ous forms and func­tions, steps and fig­ures of Pol­ish national and regional dances

- Char­ac­ter­is­tic dance test

• prac­tice: frag­ment of a char­ac­ter­is­tic dance lesson
• the­ory: the can­di­date must: be able to attribute dance forms to par­tic­u­lar nations, be famil­iar with the char­ac­ter­is­tic fea­tures of Russ­ian, Hun­gar­ian and Span­ish dances

- Mod­ern dance test

• prac­tice: frag­ment of a mod­ern dance lesson
• the­ory: the can­di­date must be famil­iar with the basic prin­ci­ples of Martha Graham’s technique

 

MA Stud­ies

Major: MUSIC ARTISTIC EDUCATION (intra­mural studies)

Spe­cialty: Choir Conducting

- Choir Con­duct­ing. Per­form­ing two pieces:

• a vocal and instru­men­tal piece
• an a cap­pella piece

- Voice Pro­duc­tion. Per­form­ing two styl­is­ti­cally diverse pieces (with piano accompaniment).

- Aural Train­ing (oral). Test of mas­tery in singing at sight, test of abil­ity to iden­tify melodic, har­monic and rhyth­mic structures.

- Piano

• study
• poly­phonic piece
• sonata alle­gro (sonata or con­certo movement)
• optional piece

 

Spe­cialty: Rhythmics

- Rhyth­mics

• a chain of rhyth­mic themes in beats 3/4, 4/4 eighth and addi­tional rhythms
• a four-measure rhyth­mi­cal theme to a dou­ble tempo
• two-voice polyrhyth­mics, in which one voice is sung
• free move­ment impro­vi­sa­tion to impro­vised music

- Piano impro­vi­sa­tion with ele­ments of aural training

• a vista singing of a song for chil­dren and accom­pa­ni­ment impro­vi­sa­tion in sec­ond transposition
• impro­vi­sa­tion of a poly­phon­is­ing minia­ture in the baroque style in a set metre (3/4, 6/8, 4/4) and any key
• impro­vi­sa­tion of illus­tra­tion minia­tures in the forms: ABA, AB, slur form
• impro­vi­sa­tion of a chain of rhyth­mic themes in beat 4/4 with a rhyth­mi­cal prob­lem given
• test of abil­ity to iden­tify melodic and har­monic structures

- Inter­view

• moti­va­tion of choice of the major of studies
• knowl­edge about E. Jaques-Dalcroze’s method
• pre­sen­ta­tion of a way of intro­duc­ing a met­ric and rhyth­mi­cal prob­lem cho­sen by the candidate

 

Major: CHURCH MUSIC (intra­mural studies)

Spe­cialty: Church Music

- Organ – per­form­ing the pre­pared programme:

• a piece from a pre-Bach period
• J. S. Bach – pre­lude and fugue
• J. S. Bach — sonata
• J. S. Bach – chorale with fig­ured can­tus firmus
• optional piece

- Choir Con­duct­ing — per­form­ing two pieces:

• a vocal and instru­men­tal piece
• an a cap­pella piece

- Voice Pro­duc­tion. Per­form­ing two styl­is­ti­cally diverse pieces (with piano accom­pa­ni­ment).
Atten­tion! Music scores must be included in the documentation

- Aural Train­ing (oral). Test of mas­tery in singing at sight, test of abil­ity to iden­tify melodic, har­monic and rhyth­mic structures.

 

Major: DANCE (extra­mural studies)

Spe­cialty: Bal­let Pedagogy

- Clas­si­cal dance test

• prac­tice and the­ory – pre­sen­ta­tion and dis­cus­sion about rules of per­form­ing the ele­ments of exer­cises of a clas­si­cal dance lesson
• teach­ing method­ics – prov­ing one’s knowl­edge about the method­ics of clas­si­cal dance teach­ing, enriched with exam­ples of well-constructed

- Folk dance test

• prac­tice and the­ory — pre­sen­ta­tion and dis­cus­sion about rules of per­form­ing the Pol­ish national and regional dances (from regions of Sile­sia, Kurpie, Great Poland, Kaszuby, Rzeszów). Char­ac­ter­is­tic fea­tures and his­tory of Pol­ish national dances
• teach­ing method­ics — prov­ing one’s knowl­edge about the method­ics of folk dance teach­ing; prepar­ing exer­cises help­ing per­form the steps and fig­ures in the right way, con­struct­ing the­matic dance compositions

- Char­ac­ter­is­tic dance test

• prac­tice and the­ory — pre­sen­ta­tion and dis­cus­sion about rules of per­form­ing and char­ac­ter­is­tic fea­tures of Russ­ian, Hun­gar­ian and Span­ish dances
• teach­ing method­ics — prov­ing one’s knowl­edge about the method­ics of teach­ing the above men­tioned dances; prepar­ing exer­cises help­ing per­form the steps and fig­ures in the right way, con­struct­ing the­matic dance compositions

- Mod­ern dance test

• prac­tice and the­ory — pre­sen­ta­tion and dis­cus­sion about rules of per­form­ing, knowl­edge how to name and match the par­tic­u­lar pas with the rel­e­vant mod­ern dance techniques
• teach­ing method­ics — prov­ing one’s knowl­edge about the method­ics of mod­ern dance teach­ing; know­ing how to use the notions of mod­ern dance in prac­tice; knowl­edge how to pre­pare exer­cises and danc­ing etudes on one’s own

Spe­cialty: Chore­og­ra­phy and The­ory of Dance

• Test of knowl­edge about the­ory and his­tory of dance and bal­let, and knowl­edge about dance
• Test of dance skills (clas­si­cal dance, mod­ern dance)
• Test of dance com­po­si­tion skills
  - per­form­ing a cho­sen move­ment com­po­si­tion pre­pared ear­lier (about 2.5 min­utes)
  Atten­tion: Before the exam a can­di­date is obliged to sub­mit CDs with the musi­cal piece to which the com­po­si­tion was pre­pared to the head of the Exam­i­na­tion Committee
• Test of move­ment impro­vi­sa­tion skills accord­ing to a ran­domly cho­sen topic: a fig­ure, emo­tion, frag­ment of a musi­cal piece or a text task