The degree program

School: Harpsichord School

Department : Department of Keyboard and Percussion Instruments

A1 - Course title : Course of First Level Academic Degree (Bachelor Degree) in Historical Piano

Educational goals

On completion of their First Level Academic Degree in Historical Piano, 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:
– solo performance
– chamber orchestra performance
– orchestra performance
– theatre music orchestra performance
– basso continuo player for chamber music repertoire and theatre music
– rehearsal master for pre-classic repertoire singers

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/06
Ear training - 1 424/76
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06
Music theory318/57
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04Music history and historiography - 1424/76
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/17Performance practice and repertoires - 11730/395
8.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments - 1425/75
33.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/05Tuning and temperament - 1318/57
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesSacred music performanceCODC/01Contrapuntal techniques - 1320/55
36.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Core ActivitiesSolo performanceCOMA/17Fundamentals of instrument history and technology318/57
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Supplementary ActivitiesMusic entertainment organization and communicationCOCM/02Techniques and strategies for multimedia communication424/76
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Supplementary ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/15
Performance practice and repertoires - Harpsichord and historical keyboards412/88
14.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Further ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/03Music acoustics212/38
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Final examination related activities and foreign language knowledgeLanguagesCODL/02EU foreign language320/55
36.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Free-Choice Activities6Mandatory
Second year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Ear training - 2424/76
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04Music history and historiography - 2424/76
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Music semiography - 1318/57
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Basic ActivitiesSolo performanceCODI/20Liturgical organ practice412/88
14.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/17Performance practice and repertoires - 21730/395
8.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesSolo performanceCOMA/17Literature of the instrument - 1312/63
19.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/05Basso continuo theory215/35
43.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/17Treatises and methods - 1318/57
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/05Tuning and temperament - 2212/38
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/17Improvisation and ornamentation on the instrument - 1212/38
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments - 2425/75
33.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesSacred music performanceCODC/01Contrapuntal techniques - 2320/55
36.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Further ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/05Music word processing and computerized music publishing324/51
47.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Free-Choice Activities6Mandatory
Third year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Music semiography - 2212/38
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/01Bibliographic research tools and methods424/76
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/17Performance practice and repertoires - 31730/395
8.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments - 3425/75
33.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesSolo performanceCOMA/17Literature of the instrument - 2312/63
19.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/17Treatises and methods - 2318/57
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/05Basso continuo performance practice and repertoires 312/63
19.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments - 3210/40
25.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/17Improvisation and ornamentation on the instrument - 2212/38
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Core ActivitiesSacred music performanceCODC/01Contrapuntal techniques - 2320/55
36.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Further ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/04Technologies and techniques of audio recording212/38
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Free-Choice Activities6Mandatory
Final Examination9MandatoryExam