The candidate chooses one piece from each category and one piece of his/her choice.
Side drum - solo piece
The Noble Snare, volumes 1-4
Side drum - rudimental solo
One solo at the choice of the candidate
Timpani
Elliott Carter: Eight Pieces for Four Timpani: 2 / 6/ 7 - one movement from these three
Árpád Solti: Sonatina
Marimba
Paul Creston: Concertino
Gordon Stout: Rumble Strips
Sedimental Structures
Joseph Schwantner: Velocities
Leigh H. Stevens: Rhythmic Caprice
Andrew Thomas: Merlin
Eric Ewazen: Northern Lights
Keiko Abe: Variations on a Japanese Children's Song
Vibrafon
J.S.Bach:
Sechs Sonaten für Violine und Klavier BWV 1014-1019
Sechs Sonaten für Flöte und Klavier BWV 1030-1035
(one slow and one fast movement from the sonata of the candidate’s choice)
Set-up
Xenakis: Rebonds A/B
Maki Ishii: Thirteen Drums
Morton Feldmann: King of Denmark
Frederic Rzewski: To the Earth
David Lang: Anvil Chorus
John Cage: One 4
Kevin Volans: She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket
Kevin Volans: Asanga
Sight-reading
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.
