DETAILED PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS
Entrance examintations for candidates who declare the choice of the speciality Theory of Music (Bachelor’s degree):
Stage 1. The core subject examination – two components
1. An interview (part 1): presenting a prepared article from the journal of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków “Theory of Music. Studies, Interpretations, Documentations.”
2. An interview (part 2): a test of the candidate’s music/theory aptitude as well as artistic and scientific interests.
Stage 2. Supplementary examinations:
• harmony – an oral practical exam (the level of knowledge corresponding to the level of the secondary music school is required)
1. A proposal of the functional interpretation and harmonization of the provided soprano.
2. Performing harmonization of the provided melody line on the piano (in four-part or any other texture)
3. Performing the provided modulation on the piano (diatonic, chromatic or enharmonic – at the candidate’s option).
4. A harmonic analysis of a musical text fragment (classicism, romanticism – piano literature).
• ear training – an oral practical examination
(the required scope of skills and knowledge (curricular scope): corresponding to the level of the secondary music school)
1. An aural analysis of chord structures (intervals, triads and tetrads in melodic and/or harmonic sequence).
2. Harmonic interpretation of a musical fragment performed on the piano, heard by the candidate.
3. Analysing simple and compound time signatures and performing a two-part polyrhythm.
4. Singing a phrase of several bars or a polyphonic exercise: performing two plans from a given polyphony – one with the voice, the other on the piano.
• sight-reading on the piano – a practical examination