Reporter 28/7/99: Music Tripos, Parts IA and IB

Music Tripos, Parts IA and IB

The regulations for the Music Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 358) have been amended, with effect from 1 October 1999, as follows:

Regulation 16.

By replacing in the second sentence the words 'during the twelve months preceding the examination' by the words 'during the current academical year'.

The supplementary regulations for the Music Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 360) have also been amended, with effect from the same date, as follows:

Part Ia

Practical examination

By amending the detail so as to read:

Aural tests will include a memorization test (rhythms), dictation exercises (melodies and three-part counterpoint), a mistake-spotting test, timbre-recognition and scoring exercises, recognition of set pieces, and aural analysis (a movement from the period 1700-1828).

Keyboard tests will include the reading of a score of a string quartet, transposition of a chorale, the harmonizing of a given melody (in a style from the period before 1828), the realizing of a figured bass at the keyboard, and the reading of a score of a piece of four-part sixteenth-century counterpoint using G2, C3, C4, and F4 clefs.

Part Ib

Portfolio of tonal compositions

By amending the detail so as to read:

Candidates will be required to submit a portfolio comprising two tonal compositions and a short fugue in three or four parts, together with an audio-cassette recording, on conventional instruments, of one of the two compositions. The compositions shall be in different forms chosen from the following: binary, ternary, scherzo and trio, ritornello, rondo, theme and variations, sonata. The fugue must demonstrate knowledge of invertible counterpoint, and may be scored for any traditional combination of instruments; it should not exceed seventy bars in length.

In place of one of the two compositions, candidates may submit a through-composed song or group of songs, each of which must possess a clear and appropriate formal structure, for solo voice and pianoforte accompaniment, or for solo voice and accompaniment by a group of instruments. Each composition or group of songs shall be of not more than about five minutes' duration, excluding repeats, and shall be for an ensemble of not more than five players. One composition may be for solo keyboard (including organ), but melody instruments may be used only in ensemble. The fugue may also be for a keyboard instrument. Candidates will be responsible for providing the cassette, but quality of recorded sound will not contribute to the final mark.

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