Correpetition - Bachelor of Music

The Bachelor Program

The Bachelor of Music - Correpetition aims at the aquirement of the following abilities:
- paino playing techniques
- musical abilities (e.g. musical ear and memory, sense of rhythm, sense of style, creative imagination)
- interpretation abilities
- an independent musical and social personality
- a general musical education, independent thinking and acting in the musical as well as the non-musical field
The Bachelor study program prepares students in all mental and physical requirements for a successful career as répétiteurs in music theatres and schools.

General Information

DepartmentWind Instruments, Percussion, Conduction, Coaching
Study ProgramBachelor of Music - Correpetition
Language of instructionGerman
Selectable Emphasisnone
Study PlanSample Study Plan
CurriculumCurriculum Outlines
Course DescriptionsClick here
Academic DegreeBachelor of Music
Prescribed Period of Study4 Years/8 Semesters
Start of TermWinter and Summer Semester
Entrance RequirementsOutstanding artistic talent needs to be proved at the entrance examination.
Non-German applicants without a higher education entrance qualification (Abitur) need to have some knowledge of the German language. Required are:
1. The language certificate C1 of the Goethe Institute or the "Test Deutsch als Fremdsprache - Level 4" of the TestDaf Institute. The language certificate has to be submitted at the entrance examination at the latest.
2. In the theoretical subjects of the entrance examination applicants need to prove their musical knowledge in German.
Entrance ExaminationTakes place twice a year:
- in May/June for the winter semester
- in January/February for the summer semester

Applicants will be officially invited to the entrance examination by the Academy!
Semester FeeSemesterticket: 172,60 €
Social Contribution: 41,20 €
Social Fund: 3 €
AStA: 7 €
Administration Fee: 50 €
In Total: 273,80 €
RegulationsApplication and admissions regulations

Examination regulations

Study regulations
Applicant and Student Advisory OfficeClick here

The Entrance Examination

Main Subject CorrepetitionThe examination is divided into two rounds

First Round
1. Performance of a duo-piece for chamber music with a soloist, e.g. a sonata by Beethoven
2. Performance of a chosen opera scene in the original language with various roles and voices (singing and playing)
3. Performance of a chosen high-level solo piece for piano. These requirements are according to the entrance examination of the given subject.
After the first round the examination commission will decide about the admissions to the second round.

Second Round
1. Ensemble Rehearsal:
- excerpt from an opera with vocal soloists , approx. 10min.
- chamber music trio with soloists, approx. 10min.
The works will be announced four weeks before the entrance examination. Soloists will be provided by the academy.
2. Prima Vista
- sight-playing of opera excerpts
- sight-playing (atonal series without rhythm)
Pianoperformance of two chosen solo works, of which one has to be a slowly classic sonata movement or a baroque piece in a slow tempo
Music Theory (written and/or oral)- music reading in treble and bass clef as well as c-clef including the identification of the octave designation
- knowledge of all major and minor keys and their accidentals
- knowledge of all church modes
- identifying and writing down of intervals in the octave designation
- identifying and writing down of triads (in major and minor keys, diminished and augmented) and dominant seventh chords, including alterations
- knowledge of other diatonic tetrads and dominant seventh chords
- knowledge of every primary and secondary triad in major and minor keys
- composing a short cadence (four part) according to diatonic functions
- analysis of a given short cadence
- playing of a simple and an augmented cadence on the piano
- harmonizing of a folk song on the piano
Aural Training (oral)- repetition of a played short melody
- tapping of a written rhythm with tying-overs and/or syncopes
- identifying and singing of scales in minor and major keys as well as church modes (up and down)
- repeating, identifying, and singing of intervals on octave designations (up and down)
- repeating, identifying, and singing of triads and dominant seventh chords, including alterations (up and down)
- repetition, identifying, and singing of other diatonic tetrachords and dominant seventh chords
- repetition of dissonant triads and tetrachords
- sight-singing of folk songs in treble and bass clef
InterviewSmall colloquy on general music issues in German with the following requirements:
- basic knowledge on music history from Bach to the present (problems of epochs: Baroque/Classicism/Romanticism/Modernism/Postmodernism
- development of an orchestra genre
- development of the opera
- development of choir singing (choir conducting)

Application

Application Deadlinesummer semester: December 15
winter semester: April 15

The application documents must have reached the academy by this date!!!
Application Fee30€
For more information please click here
Application Formclick here to apply