The degree program

School: Trumpet School

Department : Department of Wind Instruments

A1 - Course title : Course of First Level Academic Degree (Bachelor Degree) in Renaissance and Baroque Trumpet

Educational goals

On completion of their First Level Academic Degree in Renaissance and Baroque Trumpet, 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

Teachers

Study Plan

Type of educational activitySubject area/strong>CodeSubjectCredits (CFA)Teaching hours/Personal studyingOptional/MandatoryTeaching methodAssessment criteria
First year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Ear training225/25
50.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Music theory324/51
32.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04Music history and historiography525/100
20.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/15Performance practice and repertoires315/60
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Performance practice and repertoires1730/395
7.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Fundamentals of instrument history and technology525/100
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments625/125
17.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Literature of the instrument312/63
16.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Supplementary ActivitiesEducationCODD/07Physiopathology of instrumental/vocal performance215/35
30.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Supplementary ActivitiesElectronic music and sound technologyCOME/05Computer music318/57
24.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesQualifying examination
Free-Choice Activities8Mandatory
Final examination related activities and foreign language knowledgeLanguagesCODL/02EU foreign language320/55
27.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Second year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/06Ear training225/25
50.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/01Bibliographic research tools and methods525/100
20.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04Music history and historiography530/95
24.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/15Performance practice and repertoires315/60
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Improvisation and ornamentation on the instrument512/113
10.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Performance practice and repertoires1730/395
7.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesTheory-Analysis-PracticeCOTP/05Renaissance and Baroque singing repertoire practice and repetition525/100
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments625/125
17.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Treatises and methods418/82
18.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesCompositionCODC/01Composition techniques418/82
18.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Literature of the instrument412/88
12.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Third year total credits (CFA): 60
Basic ActivitiesMusicologyCODM/04History of forms and musical repertoires425/75
25.00%
MandatoryCollective coursesExam
Basic ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/15Performance practice and repertoires315/60
20.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Improvisation and ornamentation on the instrument612/138
8.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsQualifying examination
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Performance practice and repertoires1730/395
7.00%
MandatoryIndividual lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEnsemble performanceCOMI/07Ensemble music for voices and early music instruments625/125
17.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Core ActivitiesEarly music performanceCOMA/13Literature of the instrument625/125
17.00%
MandatoryGroup lessonsExam
Free-Choice Activities10/250Mandatory
Final Examination8/200Mandatory