Admission requirements for MA studies - French Horn

 

 

 

1. Maxime-Alphonse:  Horn Etudes Book 5, etude nr. 8 or 9. 

 

2. One fast ( 1st ) movement of a significant concerto with cadences, and one slow movement of similar difficulty.

 

(Both movements to be played from memory.)

 

 

 

 

General Admission Requirements – MA

 

Written examination:

 Bass harmonisation: harmonisation of a bass line of cca. 10 notes, indication of the accords with figures.

 Analysis: formal analysis of the opening movement of a sonata from the stylistic circle of Haydn and Mozart piano sonatas.

 

 Exam in general music studies:

 a. Identification of 10 music pieces - possibly composer and title, but at least the epoch or style and identification or

     the genre.

b. Explanation and interpretation of 10 music terms, concepts, titles, etc.

 
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