Educational goals
Students completing required courses for the first level Academic Diploma in Lute will have acquired the technical ability and specific competences that will allow them to express their interpretative personality. To meet this goal, students will study closely the performance techniques and repertoire that are most representative of their instrument. They will also learn to play in ensembles composed of various instruments. Aural training, memorization and specific knowledge related to the organizational, compositional and analytical concepts of music, and their interaction, will also be studied. Considerable attention will be paid to the student’s acquisition of proper emotional and postural control. Upon completion of the three-year degree, students will have attained in-depth knowledge of the general stylistic, historical and aesthetic aspects related to their specific area. In addition, they will be able to carry out improvisation and ornamentation and will possess adequate skills in the use of computer technology for music. The ability to use a second European Union language will also be obtained.
Employment prospects
The course offers students career openings in the following fields:
– solo musician
– chamber ensemble musician
– orchestra musician
– musical theater orchestral musician
– continuo player in chamber music and musical theater repertoires
Entrance Examination Program
Test 1 checks instrument skills and candidate’s music experience. Test 2 verifies theory and musical culture knowledge.
Test 1
Multiple study programs are available depending on instruments, styles, performace practices and music periods choice.
Renaissance LUTE (6, 7 or 8 courses):
1) 30 minutes music program performance chosen by the candidate including at least one music piece from each of the following groups:
a. Fantasias or Ricercari with high difficulty counterpoint by Francesco da Milano or by Marco dall’Aquila
b. Two dances, preferaby Pavana and Saltarello, by Pietro Paulo Borrono da Milano (Casteliono, Milano 1536)
c. One Fantasia “de consonancias y redobles” and one Pavana by Luys Milán or by another 16th-century Spanish composer (played on VIHUELA or LUTE)
d. One ricercare and one dance by Italian composers from the second half of the 16th-century (Vincenzo Galilei, Simone Molinaro, Antonio Terzi or other Italian lute players of the same period)
e. One Fantasia and one dance by John Dowland or other English composer from Elisabethan age
2) Sight-reading of one piece in Italian tablature and of one piece in French tablature of medium difficulty.
3) Sight-reading basso continuo of a 17th-century music piece and/or of an improvisation on a basso line chosen by the commission.
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Candidate who chooses a study plan focused on Baroque instruments repertoire may present a 30 minutes alternative music program (on multiple instruments too), including at least one music piece from each of the following groups:
ARCHLUTE, 10 courses LUTE and/or THEORBO:
– one toccata and one dance by Alessandro Piccinini
– one toccata and one dance by Gerolamo Kapsberger
BAROQUE GUITAR:
– One music piece from tablature by Gaspar Sanz or by other Spanish composer of the same period
– One music piece by Francesco Corbetta or by other Italian or French composer of the same period
11 courses BAROQUE LUTE in D (or its German type derived):
– J. S. Bach, Preludio BWV 999
– D. Kellner, two fantasias
– One music piece from Suites by S.L. Weiss
– One music piece by R. De Viseé or by other French composer of the same period.
In case of multiple instrument program other than Renaissance lute, sight-reading tablature of medium difficulty and performance of a basso continuo and/or an improvisation on a basso line chosen by the commission will be compulsory too.
The commission reserves the right to interrupt the audition at any moment.
Test 2
1) Sight-reading solfège, with syllables, on the treble clef. Difficulty level: complex rhythmics appropriate to the instrumental or vocal repertoire up until the 1900s.
2) Sight-reading solfège, with syllables, on the seven clefs. Medium difficulty
3) Sight-singing of a melodic solfège. Short modulations and transposition (one note up or down).
4) Music dictation of a short melody with accidentals.
5) General music theory questions.
N.B. candidates will be exempted from the latter test if awarderd with one of the following:
– TRPM (Theory, rhythmic, music perception) final certification of pre-college courses (Propedeutico) issued by Conservatorio Rossini;
– TRPM level A certification of preparatory courses (Preaccademico) issued by Conservatorio Rossini;
– TRPM level A certification of preparatory courses (Preaccademico) issued by one of Conservatorio Rossini’s certified partner schools;
– “Licenza di Solfeggio” (instrument specialization) certification of old-degree system (vecchio ordinamento) issued by any Italian recognized Institution;
– High school diploma issued by any Liceo Musicale recognized by Conservatorio Rossini. The exemption will be given for diplomas issued from a.a. 2020/2021 on to candidates that had passed an exam with a commission appointed by the Liceo and completed by Conservatorio Rossini’s Director or one of his/her delegates.
Motivational interview.
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