The degree program

School: Electronic Music School

Department : Department of New Technologies and Music Languages

A1 - Course title : Course of First Level Academic Degree (Bachelor Degree) in Applied Music

Educational goals

On completion of their First Level Academic Degree in Applied Music, students will have acquired technical knowledge and specific skills to enable them to bring their own artistic ideas to practical fruition.
To this end, the course will focus on the most representative instrumental repertoire – including ensemble music – and on the related performance practices also for the purpose of developing the student’s ability to interact within different kinds of musical ensembles.
Such goals will also be achieved by fostering the development of aural perception and memorization as well as by acquiring specific knowledge concerning organizational, compositional and analytical music models and their interaction.
Specific care will be devoted to learning adequate postural and emotional control techniques.
At the end of the three-year course, students will have acquired in-depth knowledge of both general and specific stylistic, historical and aesthetic aspects in relation to their own field of study.
Moreover, in regard to the specific nature of each single course, students will be required to possess appropriate skills relating to improvisation. A further educational goal is the acquisition of suitable computer music abilities as well as competence in a second EU foreign language.

Employment prospects

The course provides students with the opportunity to work in the following fields:
– music arrangement for recording, radio and TV studios
– music audio technologies profession
– music composition for images, theatre and visual communication
– music professions related to multimedia events

Teachers

Study Plan

Type of educational activitySubject areaCodeSubjectCredits (CFA)Teaching hours/Personal studyingOptional/MandatoryTeaching methodAssessment criteria
First year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Ear training - 1225/25
50.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/02Score reading - 1525/100
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04History of forms and musical repertoires530/95
24.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/05History of electroacoustic music530/95
24.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Basic ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/03Acoustics425/75
25.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Basic ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/04Electroacoustics530/95
24.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/01Music forms, languages and systems - 1425/75
25.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/02Orchestration and arrangement - 11040/210
16.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/02Integrated audiovisual composition - 1730/145
17.14%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/05Sound sampling, synthesis and digital processing - 1530/95
24.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Free-Choice Activities8/200
0.00%
Mandatory
Second year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Ear training - 2225/25
50.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/02Score reading - 2525/100
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04Music history applied to images425/75
25.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/01Music forms, languages and systems - 2530/95
24.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/02Orchestration and arrangement - 21040/210
16.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/02Integrated audiovisual composition - 2730/145
17.14%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/02Composition for music applied to images - 1535/90
28.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/05Sound sampling, synthesis and digital processing - 2530/95
24.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Supplementary ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/01Electroacoustic music performance and interpretation520/105
16.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Supplementary ActivitiesCompositionCODC/05Chironomic conducting techniques - 1425/75
25.00%
MandatoryCollective courseQualifying examination
Free-Choice Activities5/125
0.00%
Mandatory
Final examination related activities and foreign language knowledgeLanguagesCODL/02EU foreign languages320/55
26.67%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Third year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Ear training - 3225/25
50.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/02Orchestration and arrangement - 31145/230
16.36%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/02Composition for music applied to images - 2535/90
28.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/02Electroacoustic music composition830/170
15.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/02Composition for visual communication835/165
17.50%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Supplementary ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/06Multimedia systems, technologies and programming languages530/95
24.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Supplementary ActivitiesMusic entertainment organization and communicationCOCM/01Live music entertainmnet law and legislation220/30
40.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Supplementary ActivitiesCompositionCODC/05Chironomic conducting techniques - 2425/75
25.00%
MandatoryCollective courseExam
Free-Choice Activities5/125
0.00%
Mandatory
Final Examination10/250
0.00%
Mandatory