Educational goals
Students completing required courses for the second level Academic Diploma in Wind Orchestra Instrumentation 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 main compositional techniques and idioms that are most representative of various historical periods and specific professional expertise in instrumentation, orchestration, transcription and arrangement, while developing perceptual abilities in aural training and memorization. In addition, students will learn about the various models of music analysis and their evolution. Upon completion of the two-year degree, students will have attained in-depth knowledge of the general stylistic, historical and aesthetic aspects related to their specific area of composition. In addition, they will be able to carry out improvisation 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 skills developed in the chosen course of education enable students to gain access to the world of work on the basis of an education in line with European standards, offering employment prospects in various fields such as:
– Composer
– Band conductor
– Employee at recording companies and music publishers
– Teacher
– Employee and organizer in the music context
Entrance Examination Program
Through an interview the candidate should prove its knowledge of wind instruments’ repertoire (chamber music, orchestra and marching band). In particular, related to the different music styles and historical ages main features.
Possible marching band previous experience should be assessed and, specifically, candidate’s knowledge over marching band’s original repertoire from last century.
By several tests it will be essential to prove the following skills:
a) conducting gestures expression skills.
b) identification skills – by simple listening – about orchestra timbres, harmonic and melodic structure, styles.
c) score reading skills on the piano, with analytical purpose, of piano and chamber music compositions from various historical ages.
It should be assessed possible music pieces and band transcriptions previously composed by the candidate.
Motivational interview.
PIANO TEST OF SCORE READING
1) Performance of a Prelude and Fugue from “The Well-Tempered Clavier” by J. S. Bach.
2) Performance of a Sonata chosen by the candidate, either from those by BEETHOVEN (excluding op. 49) or from the post-Beethoven period.
3) Sight-reading at the piano of a four-voice madrigal or motet, written in the clefs of soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.
4) Piano reading of an Italian aria, chosen by the examination board, while singing the vocal part (N. B. = The candidate will have 45 minutes in a piano-equipped room to prepare for this test).
N. B.:
Candidates holding qualifications certifying the completion of equivalent piano tests will only take tests no. 3 and 4.
Candidates holding qualifications certifying the completion of tests no. 3 and 4 will also be exempted from them.
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