Church Music Bachelor

1. current passport photo (the following formats are accepted: GIF, JPEG, JPG or PNG)
2. Complete and up-to-date curriculum vitae in tabular form (up to the year of application)
3. School leaving certificate (if not yet available, the last school certificate is sufficient for the time being), in case of foreign certificates a certified translation in German or English is required*
4. If applying for a Master's degree: Bachelor's certificate or equivalent, "Transcript of Records", if applying for a concert exam: Master's certificate or equivalent, "Transcript of Records "*
5. For applicants from the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, certificate of the Academic Evaluation Service (APS) (PR China // Vietnam)
6. Proof of language skills according to the requirements of the degree programmes (see below, Language certificates)
7. Please note that you have to submit additional documents in the different study programmes. Please inform yourself about this on the website of the respective study program for which you are applying under "aptitude test". Among other things, letter of motivation, assignments, phoniatric report (voice)...

*If you do not have all final certificates at the time of application, please submit the most recent certificates and supporting documents in advance. Submit the final documents without being asked and in good time before the start of your studies. If you have any questions, please contact us immediately.  

Please fill out the online application completely and upload all requested documents. After you have submitted your online application with a final mouse click, you will receive an email from us confirming the receipt of your application.

After the application deadline, you will receive an invoice from us for an administrative fee of 50 Euro. Please transfer the fee to the account of the HfMDK stating your invoice number and name within the mentioned payment deadline. Only when the administrative fee has been credited to the university's account is your application complete and can be processed.

The application fee is charged per applicant. If you apply for two courses or subjects, no further fee is due. The fee will be due again if you reapply at a later date (new round of applications).

A refund of the application fee is excluded - this also applies if the application is withdrawn.

1. five chorale arrangements from the organ booklet by J. S. Bach
2. One free work by J. S. Bach or another composer of the 17th or 18th century
3. a work of the 19th or 20th/21st century

The selection of individual pieces and movements is made by the examination board. (Examination duration 20 minutes)

1. prepared: Improvisation of a chorale prelude and several accompanying verses of a self-selected hymn
2. unprepared: Harmonizing hymns with short prelude

Test duration 10 minutes

1. a polyphonic work by J. S. Bach (e.g. one of the Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier)
2. an easy to moderately difficult sonata of the Viennese Classical period
3. A 19th or 20th/21st century work
4. From sheet music

The selection of individual pieces and movements is made by the examination committee.

Performing a simple art song

Test duration for piano and voice together approx. 20 minutes.

1. Rehearsing and conducting a simple, prepared choral movement (15 copies of the choral score are to be kept ready by the candidate)
2. From sheet music of a simple three or four-part choral movement from the score

Test duration 20 minutes.

• Written (test duration 60 minutes):
  In a written test, the applicant must demonstrate the ability to recognize elementary rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, tonal and formal relationships audibly.

• Oral-Practical (test duration max. 10 minutes):
  The requirements of the written test are supplemented by an oral-practical test.

Written (examination duration max. 90 minutes in total):

• Four-part arrangement of a given melody
• continue and finish a given melody (approximate number of bars will be given) and compose an accompaniment for one or more voices in addition (three melodies of different periods and styles will be given to choose from)
• Determining chords and chord progressions
• Comment on an excerpt of a score presented, considering instrumentation, timbre, stylistic/historical classification, form, compositional technique, character

Oral-Practical (exam duration max. 10 minutes):

• Knowledge of chord theory up to the dominant seventh chord
• Knowledge of the church keys (church tones)
• Knowledge of figured bass