Regulations, degree plans and module catalogues
From the beginning of the course, artistic development on the guitar is closely linked to the question of how one's own learning works in the first place and how what has been learned can be conveyed in an artistically imaginative way. Art and pedagogy are closely correlated in the field of instrumental learning and are placed in a exchange. At the same time, the use of different forms of instruction (individual instruction, small group instruction, class instruction) creates a variety of instruction in the principal subjects, thereby the amount of artistic input increasing quantitatively (through more instructional time) and qualitatively (through a variety of artistic stimulation). Thus, artistic and pedagogical training components appear to be mutually reinforcing areas.
A pool of artistic teachers from outside the university who are experts in a particular guitaristic style (for example, flamenco, fingerstyle, jazz or metal guitar) can be visited by students in phases for lessons outside the university. Among other things, this artistic internship enables students to develop an individual artistic profile and also ensures a stylistic or genre-related diversity already during the course of study, which the guitar has to offer more than any other instrument.
One of the aims of guitar training is to integrate improvisation into the principal subject lessons, for example by setting tasks for improvisation with the compositional means of a composition currently being worked on (stylistic improvisation) or by introducing students to free playing with musical material.
Performance of at least three works from different stylistic periods. Sight-reading.
(Excerpt from the Statutes on Enrollment; see there also the General examination requirements und the Requirements of the further examination parts [ear training, music theory, piano]).
Regulations, degree plans and module catalogues
Principal subjects: Main subject lessons, chamber music, musicology/theory, elective module, Master's thesis
Performance of at least four works from different stylistic periods, including one work composed after 1950.
(Excerpt from the Statutes on Enrollment; see there also the General examination requirements.)
Performance of at least four works from different stylistic periods, including one work composed after 1950.
(Excerpt from the enrolment statutes; see also the general examination requirements).
Further notes on the entrance exams (Application, Deadlines, Formal Requirements)