Com­po­si­ti­on Ba­che­lor

The goal of the pro­gram is to help stu­dents be­co­me in­de­pen­dent ar­tists and the in­tro­duc­tion to po­ten­ti­al pro­fes­sio­nal fields. The stu­dy pro­gram ta­kes place in one of two con­cen­tra­ti­ons:

• Fo­cus on In­stru­men­tal Mu­sic
• Fo­cus on Elec­tro­nic Mu­sic and Tech­no­lo­gy.

In both con­cen­tra­ti­ons, the star­ting point is the ba­sic tea­ching of com­po­si­tio­nal craft and an in­tro­duc­tion to ar­tis­tic is­su­es. The pro­gram pro­vi­des an over­view of con­tem­pora­ry and his­to­ri­cal com­po­si­tio­nal tech­ni­ques and pro­ces­ses. We at­tach a par­ti­cu­lar im­por­t­an­ce to re­flec­ting on the as­so­cia­ted ae­s­the­tic at­ti­tu­des and re­la­ting the­se to the cur­rent si­tua­ti­on of con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic. In­stru­men­tal mu­sic and the use of tech­no­lo­gi­cal and elec­tro­nic me­ans are trea­ted with dif­fe­rent em­pha­sis in both ma­jors.

Re­flec­tion, theo­ry and in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry prac­tice

Through the ana­ly­sis of a wide va­rie­ty of works, their di­ver­se sty­listic cri­te­ria be­co­me tan­gi­ble and com­pre­hen­si­ble. This en­ab­les an ex­em­pla­ry ori­en­ta­ti­on for one's own com­po­sing. In ad­di­ti­on to ae­s­the­tic re­flec­tion, the in­ten­si­ve prac­ti­cal ex­ami­na­ti­on of in­stru­men­tal, vo­cal and elec­tro­nic sound pro­duc­tion is a cen­tral sub­ject of the cour­se. The cur­ri­cu­lum of­fers room for pro­jec­ts in which ar­tis­tic work in com­plex con­texts is lear­ned in an ex­em­pla­ry man­ner. Here, the stu­den­t's own ar­tis­tic work is also lin­ked to other di­sci­pli­nes, such as thea­ter, film, dance, vi­su­al arts, etc. Ba­sic ex­pe­ri­ence in the field of mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on is also part of the cour­se.

In­di­vi­du­al ar­tis­tic pro­fi­le for­ma­ti­on

On the one hand, ba­sic know­ledge is ac­qui­red du­ring the cour­se of stu­dy, which is a pre­re­qui­si­te for working as a com­po­ser; at the same time, howe­ver, the cour­se of stu­dy also of­fers the space for in­di­vi­du­al fo­cus, which is key to en­ab­ling the de­ve­lop­ment of an in­de­pen­dent ar­tis­tic per­so­na­li­ty. Suc­cess­ful com­ple­ti­on of the pro­gram qua­li­fies stu­dents for the pro­fes­sio­nal field of com­po­sing and ar­ran­ging in the li­be­ral and ap­p­lied arts. The aim is to crea­te op­por­tu­nities for in­di­vi­du­al ar­tis­tic pro­files in the di­ver­si­ty of pro­fes­sio­nal per­spec­tives (in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry, tech­no­lo­gi­cal, in­stru­men­tal, etc.).

The pre­re­qui­si­te for ad­mis­si­on to the Ba­che­lor's de­gree pro­gram in Com­po­si­ti­on is pro­of of the uni­ver­si­ty ent­ran­ce qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on (Ab­itur) ac­cord­ing to § 54 para. 2 of the Hes­si­an Hig­her Edu­ca­ti­on Act of De­cem­ber 14, 2009 in the ver­si­on of De­cem­ber 21, 2010. A mis­sing uni­ver­si­ty ent­ran­ce qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on can be re­pla­ced by an out­stan­ding ar­tis­tic ta­lent (at least 19 out of a pos­si­ble 25 points in the ap­ti­tu­de test) ac­cord­ing to § 54 para. 4 sen­tence 3 HHG.

Suf­fi­ci­ent oral and writ­ten know­ledge of the Ger­man lan­guage is re­qui­red for ad­mis­si­on to the Ba­che­lor's de­gree pro­gram in com­po­si­ti­on. Ad­mis­si­on to the ba­che­lor's de­gree pro­gram in com­po­si­ti­on re­qui­res the suc­cess­ful com­ple­ti­on of an ap­ti­tu­de test.

With the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on for the ap­ti­tu­de test at least three scores of own com­po­si­ti­ons (if pos­si­ble in dif­fe­rent in­stru­men­ta­ti­ons) have to be sub­mit­ted.

Af­ter re­viewing the scores, the jury of ex­perts will de­ci­de on the in­vi­ta­ti­on to the ap­ti­tu­de test on the ba­sis of ori­gi­na­li­ty, tech­ni­cal com­pe­tence and the con­tem­pora­ry ae­s­the­tic ap­proach of the sub­mit­ted com­po­si­ti­ons.

Eva­lua­ti­on of the ap­ti­tu­de test

The test is pas­sed if each part of the ex­ami­na­ti­on is as­ses­sed with at least 13 points.

Ad­mis­si­on can also be gran­ted if the col­lo­qui­um is eva­lua­ted with at least 13 points and the over­all gra­de cal­cu­la­ted from the fol­lo­wing ra­ti­os is at least 13 points:

1. Col­lo­qui­um: 50%
2. Mu­sic theo­ry: 20%
3. Lis­ten­ing skills: 15%
4. In­stru­men­tal au­di­tion: 15%

In this case, en­roll­ment is sub­ject to re­ser­va­ti­on ac­cord­ing to § 54, pa­ra­graph 4, sen­tence 2 HHG. The re­ser­va­ti­on is sett­led if the com­pul­so­ry sub­ject ex­ami­na­ti­ons, which were as­ses­sed with less than 13 points, are made up for wi­t­hin the first two se­mes­ters af­ter ma­tri­cu­la­ti­on and are suc­cess­ful­ly com­ple­ted (at least 13 points). For parts of the ex­ami­na­ti­on that have not yet been pas­sed, the­re is no en­t­it­le­ment to tui­ti­on af­ter ad­mis­si­on.

The Stu­dy and Ex­ami­na­ti­on Re­gu­la­ti­ons (SPO) set out the frame­work con­di­ti­ons and re­gu­la­ti­ons for your stu­dies. They ap­p­ly tog­e­ther with the Ge­ne­ral Re­gu­la­ti­ons (for Ba­che­lor's and Mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram­mes) or the SPoL (for tea­cher trai­ning de­gree pro­gram­mes). All ver­si­ons of the SPO for your de­gree pro­gram­me (in­clu­ding ear­lier ver­si­ons for stu­dents of pre­vious aca­de­mic ye­ars) can be found at Ex­ami­na­ti­ons.