Admission Requirements, Jazz Trombone (BA)

I. Classical

 

- Major and harmonic minor scales in different tempos and styles – staccato, legato - , in simpler keys.

- 2 etudes from the 2nd volume of Kopprasch’s edition.

- 2 pieces at the choice of the candidate. (For example, Saint-Saens: Kavatina; Sachse: Concerto; Gafe: Concerto; De La Nux: Concerto; Spinelli: Concerto or pieces of similar difficulty.)

 

II. Jazz

 

- Solistic performance of three popular jazz standards (theme-improvisation-theme) of different tempo (slow, medium, fast) and character (ballad, Latin, swing, pair and impair metrum). Piano accompaniment is provided by the department, but the candidate has to bring the notes – suitable for piano accompaniment.

- Blues improvisation with simple harmonies in various tempos and in simpler keys.

- Playing about 10 jazz standards in original harmonisation from memory.  (Presentation of themes with stylistic phrasing, without improvisation)

- Sight reading of a motive possibly with stylistic phrasing, given at the exam.

 

General admission requirements - jazz

 

 

I.                   Piano compulsory:

 

  • Knowledge and playing the basic jazz accords on piano.  
  • Four types of triads and their classical inversion (sixth, six-four chord), major and minor jazz sixth chord,  major7, dominant7, minor major7, minor7, extended fifth major7, extended fifth dominant7, diminished major7, half diminished and diminished seventh chord, dominant 76, major and minor69, major and minor79, dominant 7b10 jazz chord for any root position.
  • 8+1 chord of four notes (major7, dominant7, minor major7, minor7, extended fifth dominant7, extended fifth major7, diminished fifth major7, half diminished and diminished seventh chord), their classical inversions on any note.
  • Playing all moduses (21 scales) of the major and harmonic minor tonal systems.
  • Playing the five types of pentatonic moduses, the full-tone, half-full, and full-half scales from any note.
  • Playing the cadence chord lines (I-IV-V-I; I-V-IV-I; I-VI-II-V-I; I-III-VI-II-V-I) with two hands, in four parts, in three registers, with classical lines until 6 crosses, 6 flat keys.
  • Playing jazz II-V-I cadences with chord transformations (II: m79; V: dom769; I: maj79 or dúr69), until 6 crosses, 6 flat keys.

 

II. Solfège and music theory

 

 

Solfège written exam

 

Duration of the exam: 2 hours

No complimentary material may be used during the exam.

 

  • Recognition and notation of the four types of triads and their inversions after listening to them twice.
  • Recognition and notation of the 8+1 chord of four notes (major7, dominant7, minor major7, minor7, extended fifth dominant7, extended fifth major7, diminished fifth major7, half diminished and diminished seventh chord) in root position. – played twice
  • Recognition and notation the classical inversions of major7, dominant7, minor major7, minor7 and half diminished seventh chords – played 3 times.
  • Recognition and notation of pentatonic moduses (5 scales) – played twice.
  • Recognition and notation of all moduses of the major, harmonic minor and the melodic minor tonal system (21 scales), the full-note, half-full and full-half scales – played three times.
  • Notation of a jazz rhythm of medium difficulty – played 6 times.
  • Notation of a one-part melody of 4-8 beats, which modulates simply – played 8 times.
  • Notation of a two-part, 4-8 beat melody of medium difficulty – played 8 times.
  • Classical harmonic analysis until the inversion of chord of four notes.

 

  
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