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School of Music Undergraduate Orientation for Music Audition Students
School of Music Undergraduate Orientation for all entering freshman and transfers who have not completed the audition will be held on Friday, August 21, 2009, from 1–2 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall. Parents are invited to join their students during this session which will cover the audition process for the School of Music.
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School of Music Undergraduate Orientation for Music Majors
School of Music Undergraduate Orientation, for all entering freshman and transfer music majors, will be held on Saturday, August 22, 2009, from 9 a.m. to Noon in the Recital Hall. A pizza lunch will follow the orientation session, at Noon in Cowley Lobby. All new undergraduate music students are required to attend. Parents are invited to join their students at 12:30 p.m. for a tour of the School of Music.
Undergraduate Diagnosic Exams
Music Theory Diagnostic Exam
All students are required to take the Music Theory Diagnostic Exam unless you have appropriate transfer music theory credits. Students taking AP Music Theory are expected to take the exam. The Music Theory Diagnostic Exam is given on each of the regularly-scheduled audition days. Students who submit an audition recording or audition on a day other than the regularly-scheduled audition days must contact the School of Music for instructions on taking the exam. The results of the exam will determine if you have sufficient knowledge to begin the required music theory coursework. Students will not be permitted to enroll in music theory courses until they have been given approval to do so by the School of Music.
Download the Sample Music Theory Diagnostic Exam.
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All entering freshman and transfer music majors (except keyboard majors) must take a Piano Diagnostic Exam. The purpose of this exam is to assess your current level of keyboard facility and to determine which level of class piano you need to be in to complete your degree requirements. You may place into any of the levels of the class piano curricula, or may be sufficiently advanced to have all of the class piano requirements waived. The exam is administered on each of the regularly-scheduled audition days.
Students who submit an audition recording or audition on a day other than the regularly-scheduled audition days must take the exam on Thursday or Friday of the week prior to the first day of classes. A sign-up sheet will be available outside of room E-259 at the beginning of the week before classes begin. If you have no or very little piano experience, you do not need to play a piano diagnostic exam, but should register for MUP 131.
Please come to your scheduled diagnostic exam prepared to perform a piece of solo piano literature (classical, preferably) which best reflects your current level of playing. Your piece does not have to be memorized. You will be asked to play some scales and arpeggios, and some chord progressions. Based on your competency in these areas, you will be asked to sight read a piece of music, harmonize a melody, play a particular accompaniment, or read a chorale style piece.
You will be given the results of your diagnostic exam immediately after taking it so that you will know for which class you may register.