What is tested in the Conducting Department of the Conservatory of Music is introduced as follows:
Preliminary Professional Examination
1. Conducting:
1. Conduct an orchestral piece Or a symphony in one movement, or a chorus in two pieces. During the examination, the candidate conducts two pianos.
2. Sight-reading the conductor to temporarily designate the repertoire.
2. Comprehensive basic interview:
1. Instrumental music performance ability test.
1) Requirements for pianist candidates (all performances from memory):
One etude: The second half of Czerny etude 740 or above;
One large piece of music: classical sonata Allegro movement or variations, rondo, etc.;
One piece of polyphonic music with more than three parts (such as Bach's "Three Inventions" or "Twelve Equal Temperaments" fugue).
2) Candidates who are mainly testing other musical instruments (Western orchestral instruments, national musical instruments) are required to have an intermediate or above professional level of playing ability:
One etude;
One large piece of music;
Additional piano test (must be performed from memory):
a. One etude: no less advanced than the second half of Czerny Etude 299 Part;
b. One piece of music: Allegro movement of classical sonata;
c. One piece of polyphonic music (not inferior to Bach's "Two Inventions");
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d. Sight-read temporarily designated music.
2. Sight-read temporarily designated music or play and sing.
3. Listening and sight-singing interviews.
1) Listening: single notes, intervals, chords (including all seventh chords and inversions), listening and playing of harmony questions, rhythm evaluation;
2) Sight-singing : Interval structure and singing, sight-singing the music score in four sharps and flats.
4. Candidates who apply for the choral conducting direction will take an additional singing test, including one foreign song of their own choice.
Note: The first and second items are scored comprehensively.
Professional re-examination
1. Harmony:
Form: writing four-part harmony for the designated treble melody and bass melody;
Degree: natural tone system, semitone system, modulation of closely related keys and simple usage of various chord outtones.
2. Piano:
1. Requirements for piano testers (all performances from memory):
1) One etude: no less than The second half of Czerny's Etude Opus 740 or above;
2) One large piece of music: classical sonata Allegro movement or variations, rondo, etc.;
3) More than three voices One polyphonic piece (such as "Bach's Three Inventions" or the fugue of "Twelve Equal Temperaments");
4) Small piece of music (equivalent to the other three examination pieces, etudes, Except for sonatas and polyphony).
2. For those who test other instruments in the preliminary examination, the piano requirements are the same as those of the preliminary instrumental music performance ability test 2).
2. Music theory
Tone and pitch, temperament, notation, rhythm, intervals, chords, various modes (scales, chromatic scales, mode analysis, transposition, mode pronunciation, etc.).
Professional Three Tests
1. Harmony:
Form: writing four-part harmony for the designated treble melody and bass melody;
Level: natural tone system, semitone system, modulation of closely related keys and simple usage of various chord outtones.
2. Piano:
1. Requirements for piano testers (all performances from memory):
1) One etude: no less than The second half of Czerny's Etude Opus 740 or above;
2) One large piece of music: classical sonata Allegro movement or variations, rondo, etc.;
3) More than three voices One polyphonic piece (such as "Bach's Three Inventions" or the fugue of "Twelve Equal Temperaments");
4) Small piece of music (equivalent to the other three examination pieces, etudes, Except for sonatas and polyphony).
2. For those who test other instruments during the preliminary examination, the piano requirements are the same as those of the preliminary instrumental music performance ability test 2).
2. Music theory
Tone and pitch, temperament, notation, rhythm, intervals, chords, various modes (scales, chromatic scales, mode analysis, transposition, mode pronunciation, etc.).
Bibliography for Preparation for the Third Exam
1. "National Basic Sight-Singing Tutorial 1A, 1B" is produced by the Sight-Singing and Ear Training Teaching and Research Office of the Central Conservatory of Music and published by the Central Conservatory of Music Press.
2. "French Sight-Singing 2A, 2B" written by Henri Raymond Gustave Kalulli and published by People's Music Publishing House.
3. "Sight-singing and Ear-training Art Test Tutorial Textbook" compiled by the Sight-singing and Ear-training Teaching and Research Office of the Central Conservatory of Music and published by the Central Conservatory of Music Press.
4. "Music Theory Pre-Test Tutorial" edited by Fu Ni and published by Central Conservatory of Music Press.
5. "Basic Music Theory Tutorial" edited by Li Chongguang and published by People's Music Publishing House.