Sharing the postgraduate entrance examination for the conducting major at the Central Conservatory of Music?

Introduction to the College

The Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music was founded in 1956. It is a department with a long history of conducting teaching in China. It has long been the leading conducting department in China and has cultivated a large number of well-known conductors for the country. He is an outstanding conductor at home and abroad and has made significant contributions to the creation and development of the Chinese conducting discipline. The Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music is well-known in the domestic music education community for its "success rate" and is known for its strict management. It is a nurturing place for major domestic music groups and music industry elites, and most of its students have excellent academic performance. It has produced more than 20 music directors, chief conductors and leaders of well-known orchestras and opera houses, and has trained famous conductors Chen Zuohun, Shao En, Hu Yongyan, Shui Lan, Wang Jin, Lu Jia, Yu Feng, Yang Li, Li Xincao, Zhang Yi, Zhang Xian, Yang Yang, Chen Lin, Xia Xiaotang and other outstanding talents. Among its students, 9 have won the international conducting competition award 13 times; 5 students have won the only three awards in the country so far, 7 times. Gold, silver and bronze medals in the National Conducting Competition.

Teaching System

At the beginning of its establishment, the teaching system of the Command Department was "inclusive" and absorbed the teaching experience of the former Soviet Union and Europe and the United States. In the subsequent more than fifty years of development, in Under the leadership of successive department heads Huang Feili, Zheng Xiaoying, Xu Xin, Yu Feng and other professors, it has gradually formed an advanced teaching system with distinctive Chinese characteristics that has a rigorous academic style of study, unity and openness among teachers and students, and continuous development of teaching from generation to generation.

The educational goal of the Conducting Department is to cultivate conductors, organizers and leaders in the field of collective music performing arts (opera, symphony, chorus, etc.). As top talents in the field of music, the training model for conducting talents is very unique: its main subject teaching adopts a single teaching method of three teachers to one student; other professional courses set up around the conducting discipline include score reading, Level 1 sight-singing and ear training, two-piano symphony performance, chorus, band training, harmony, polyphony, work analysis, orchestration, modern work analysis, etc. In addition, the command department also has very strict shaping and guidance in terms of students' ideological and moral character and personality construction.

Conduct

1. Main subjects [Conducting; Comprehensive Professional Competence Examination - Music Fundamentals, Sight-Singing and Ear Training (four sharps and flats including modulation), Piano, Sight-reading, Score Reading, Comprehensive Test of Composition Technology Theory]. Note: For graduates of the conducting department of our college, except for "conducting", the interview can be appropriately brief.

2． Harmony and work analysis

1) Band conductor and folk music conducting direction: harmony and work analysis (Students who have not graduated from the conducting major of this college must add trial orchestration.)

2 ) Chorus conducting direction: harmony, work analysis (same volume as orchestration research direction)

3. History of Chinese and Western Music

4. Piano

5. Choral arrangements (choral conductors only)

Bibliography

How to read the score Reading of the symphony score Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press (Russia) Nikolai Pavlovich Yaino Sov

Orchestral Orchestration Tutorial Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press by Yang Liqing

Orchestration People's Music Publishing House (France) Berlioz

Orchestration People's Music Publishing Society (US) Piston

"Composition Techniques" (Volume 2) written by Paul Hindemith and translated by Luo Zhongrong Shanghai Music Publishing House

This book depends on the teaching of teachers. Teachers must adapt the material to the needs of individual students. For a teacher, the rules and questions listed one by one should never hinder his performance in teaching; on the contrary, when he carefully handles the materials that have been presented, he should also discover the requirements for creating new homework materials. There were no limits on his creative talents. If he prefers to teach his students on the basis of traditional compositional methods, he can take advantage of the help available here, which is as useful to him as to discovering whatever practical applications he and his students still have. It is equally useful to know nothing about the field of sound. He will see that he will retain complete freedom in developing an independent writing style.

"Chinese Musicology"

"Music History Customized Materials"

"Basic Knowledge of Music"

"Chinese Music History"

"Chinese Music History Question Bank"

"Summary of Key Points in Chinese Musicology"

2. Experience Sharing

Politics

Information: "Xiao Xiurong's Three-piece Suit",

"Strong Grass in the Wind",

"Xu Tao's Little Yellow Book",

"Xiao 4" ",

"Xiao 8"

It is hard to say whether politics is a subject that is difficult or easy. Every year, some high-scoring contestants are brushed off because they do not pass the mark in politics, so although everyone You may be reluctant to study politics, but you still need to pay attention. Politics is divided into two parts: objective questions and subjective questions. The focus should be on the scores of the objective questions, and the subjective questions should pay attention to the questions of the two teachers Xiao and Xu. Objective questions are prepared in the early stage. I started watching a chapter of videos and doing corresponding multiple-choice questions every day from about October until mid-November. After that, I made a set of choices from major test papers every day. For the question part, through this iterative process, the multiple-choice questions should be basically maintained at a level of 4 by the end.

You don’t need to pay too much attention to the subjective questions at the beginning. After passing the multiple-choice questions, I read some modules and answer routines for subjective questions in online courses, and looked at his answer ideas based on the answers to previous real questions. , basically just clarify a main line. I am the kind of person who needs to clarify the logic when reciting. I don’t agree with the political learning method of memorizing every word right away, because there are too many things. In my opinion, political subjective questions still have a certain logic and logic. The routine can be followed, and you can experience the explanation of this part by Teacher Xu Tao specifically.

After clarifying the routine, reciting will become twice the result with half the effort. As for the hot spots every year, through the teacher’s explanation and your own judgment of the current situation, you can roughly figure out which modules should be tested. You can just memorize them by combining Xiao 4, Xiao 8 and Xiao Huang Shu. . As for the exam experience, I think the most important thing is to write quickly. I almost didn't finish it. There may be extra points for writing neatly, but you don't need to pay too much attention to it, which will put the cart before the horse. English

As for English, the English review mainly depends on the real questions. It is recommended not to use some other simulated questions. Spend all your energy on the real questions to ensure that the reading comprehension of the real questions is clear. English review is a long-term process. The main books I used during the whole process are: ①Really Want to Take the Postgraduate Entrance Examination ②Lian Lian You Ci ③150 Little Yellow Books

The first is vocabulary. I chose Teacher Zhu Wei’s exercises The accompanying video of "Lianyouci" is quite good. All the words in this book have an example sentence from the real test. They are usually long and difficult sentences from the real test. While memorizing the words, you can also learn about the long and difficult sentences. Learning and understanding are very important in later reading comprehension. It also has a cross-functional effect with the study of later real questions and can strengthen memory.

The second is reading. I selected the real questions from the past ten years and did not do anything else. I only did the reading comprehension part of the real questions. There are four reading comprehension parts in the year's real questions. One article at a time, year after year, first make one by yourself, and then answer the questions. Don’t worry about how many mistakes you make, but how much you know. Prepare a thicker notebook. First, extract the unfamiliar, vague, and beautiful adverbs or adjectives, and then recite them every day. I usually recite them after dinner. (For this purpose, I also prepared a small pocket notebook, copied the words in it, and took it out to read when I went to the toilet. Practice has proved that it still has some effect. I solved it quickly after going to the toilet. Compared with before, (Use your phone to go to the bathroom) and then the sentences. First of all, on the premise of understanding all the sentences in this article, excerpt the sentences that you like, that may be used, and have good sentence structures. How do you check that you understand every sentence? I used to want to translate one by one, but then I found that being able to translate orally and writing on paper were completely different things, so I gave up. As long as I could speak the Chinese meaning sentence by sentence, that would be fine. You don’t need to copy too many sentences from an article, just one or two. Don’t be too ambitious and copy some sentences that are difficult to translate and will not be used. Then there is the imitation. Just one or two sentences, select the core vocabulary by yourself, and then apply the sentence structure and imitate one or two sentences. The theme can be something that often appears in large and small compositions, such as environmental pollution, cultural conflicts, etc. An article must be divided into three steps: words, sentences, and imitation.

After reading 40 articles in ten years, I have almost 40 sentences that I can imitate, and these sentences are all from real questions, so the quality is very good. Next, you can prepare the composition. I chose the appropriate opening sentence, middle parallel sentence, and final closing sentence from these sentences, and then composed two composition templates. Generally speaking, one is based on pictures and one is written without. Figure. There are so many benefits to doing this. When I was looking for composition templates, many classmates were buying composition template books, but they were worried that the composition templates were similar, so they were very confused. But I assemble all my own templates myself, so I don’t have to worry about this at all. Moreover, the sentences you choose are easy to memorize and recite by yourself.

Finally, there are new question types. I find all the new question types including cloze very difficult, so I studied with the mentality of getting as many points as I can, but I chose business. I watched Teacher Zhi’s video explaining the new question types. Some of the questions still have some skills, so I recommend watching it. Do the questions.

Professional course experience

Outline:

1. History of Chinese and Western music: (1) Conducting (band conductor, chorus conductor), score reading, opera art The history of alto music in the direction of guidance, sound art guidance, and double piano performance accounts for 20%, and the history of Western music accounts for 80%; the history of alto music in the direction of conducting (folk music conducting) accounts for 80%, and the history of Western music accounts for 20%. (2) Please see Appendix 3 for details of the Chinese and Western Music History Examination Syllabus.

2. Basic music theory:

(1) Conducting (band conductor, chorus conductor, folk music conductor), score reading, sound art guidance direction: including harmony, works It contains four parts: analysis, polyphony and orchestration. It is required to analyze the harmony, musical form, polyphony and orchestration characteristics of the given work, and at the same time orchestrate the specified music fragments.

(Note: All directions except the direction of sound art direction are the same test questions)

2) The direction of opera art direction: shorten the specified opera score fragments into piano accompaniment scores , and analyze its harmony.

In addition, let me talk about my review strategy for professional courses, which is to take notes while reading, and cover all the knowledge points and test points in one go. During the review process, I compiled two large notebooks at once, one for sorting out basic knowledge and the other for strengthening memory and recitation. If you have any questions, search for Postgraduate Entrance Examination Leader on WeChat and leave a message and the teacher will reply. The two notebooks divided my review of management studies into two major stages:

1. Sorting out basic knowledge

This stage is mainly about reading the textbooks thoroughly, and reviewing all the knowledge in the process of reading the textbooks. Click to sort out. Extract key sentences from the paragraph narrative, and form your own notes after making appropriate adjustments based on importance, relevance and other criteria. 2. Strengthen memory and recite

Although the basic knowledge review has covered all knowledge points and test points, during the review process, I found that the descriptions of some knowledge points are still a bit lengthy and redundant, and not concise and precise enough. , which does not meet the requirement of reciting the answer content directly. So I read through all the reference textbooks, integrated all the contents of the three books, and compiled a recitation version of the notes. According to the different possibilities of analysis questions, short answer questions, and essay questions for each knowledge point, clear answers were given according to the answer pattern. All content is basically presented in the form of questions and answers, and the examination method of each knowledge point is clear at a glance. It is recommended that the questions be written with one color of pen and the answers with another color of pen so that they are more legible.

In this way, I directly memorized the notes I compiled in the later sprint stage. Not only was it easier to browse and search, but more importantly, it formed my own ideas and system, and I could quickly react to any chapter I mentioned. Its structural framework as well as important knowledge points, test points and question formats. It is no exaggeration to say that sometimes you will have the illusion of seeing the test questions and answers when you memorize them to the back.

Tips:

(1) Books and teaching materials are the top priority, and all test questions come from books. Don't miss any detail. What you accidentally missed may come back to you on the test paper. Therefore, it is necessary to store all the testable content in the brain like a scan, sort it in order of importance, and repeat it again and again until it cannot be more familiar.

(2) No matter how many ready-made materials and notes we have in hand, they are only for reference. Their main function is to outline the principles and help us grasp the direction and key points of review. My suggestion is to read valuable materials, form your own personal notes based on textbooks and materials, and internalize book materials into logical thinking and analytical skills. See more, memorize more, and expand more.

(3) When conditions permit, or when purchasing professional course materials, it is best to consult with current graduate students. Their experience and guidance are very important for review. Can really help you solve your problem. On the one hand, you can quickly understand the key points of knowledge and build a knowledge system; on the other hand, you will also learn some question-answering techniques and case analysis methods to avoid detours.