Studying Your Bachelor in Trossingen
The Bachelor of Music can be studied with different artistic focuses. The program offers a far-reaching basis for the development of professionalism for the corresponding professional profile. Depending on the desired career, a various profiles can be chosen beginning in the second semester.
All basic bachelor programs offer a far-reaching course offering in the sense of a basic education and above all subject/career specific skills. The bachelor programs, Music, Early Music, Church Music B, and Music and Movement were developed from the former diploma courses and continue their tradition. The Music Design bachelor offers new perspectives both in the course structure and objectives.
You can apply for these study offerings in Trossingen:
Bachelor of Music (BA I)
- Piano, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Piano, podium profile
- Organ, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Organ, podium profile
- Accordion, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Accordion, podium profile
- Guitar, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Guitar, podium profile
- Orchestral Instruments, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Orchestral Instruments, podium profile
- Orchestral Instruments, orchestra profile
- Voice, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Voice, podium profile
- Voice, vocal ensemble
Bachelor of Music and Movement (BA II)
- Rhythmics with Elementary Music Pedagogy, Voice, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Rhythmics, Voice, podium profile
- Rhythmics with Elementary Music Pedagogy, Voice Jazz-Pop, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Rhythmics, Voice Jazz-Pop, podium profile
- Rhythmics with Elementary Music Pedagogy, Instrument, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Rhythmics, Instrument, podium profile
- Rhythmics with Elementary Music Pedagogy, Instrument Jazz-Pop, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Rhythmics, Instrument Jazz-Pop, podium profile
Bachelor of Early Music (BA III)
- Historical Keyboard, Lute, and Guitar Instruments, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Historical Keyboard, Lute, and Guitar Instruments, podium profile
- String and Wind Instruments, artistic-pedagogical profile
- String and Wind Instruments, podium profile
- Voice, artistic-pedagogical profile
- Voice, podium profile
Bachelor of Music Design (BA V)
to Bachelor of Music DesignThe Bachelor of Music Degree can be Completed with These Instruments:
String Instruments
- Violin
- Viola
- Violoncello
- Double Bass
- Baroque Violin
- Baroque Viola
- Baroque Violoncello
- Viola da Gamba
Wind Instruments
- Flute
- Clarinet
- Oboe
- Bassoon
- Dulcian
- Recorder
- Transverse Flute
- Trumpet
- Horn
- Trombone
Chordal Instruments
- Piano
- Organ
- Accordion
- Guitar
- Historical keyboard instruments
- Lute/Theorbo
Choosing a Profile
The study profile in the bachelor programs I, II, III, and V takes place after beginning your studies and it is recommended to do this by the 3rd semester. The study profile must be documented by an entrance examination by the 5th semester at the latest. So, each bachelor student must choose a profile by the 5th semester and have passed the corresponding entrance examination. It is basically possible to study more than one profile.
Artistic-Pedagogical Profile
In addition to artistic development, the artistic-pedagogical program offers an intensive and far-reaching examination of the content, methods, and objectives of music pedagogical activities, such as those required in the field of music schools.
Specific content of the profile: teaching practice, didactics/methodology, speech, improvisation, ensemble conducting, classroom music-making, music school practicum, written work.
Motivation/Advising conversation about topics relevant to studies and questions about instrumental pedagogy, vocal pedagogy, and music and movement pedagogy relevant for the career, taking into account basic specialist literature. A passed midterm exam in another artistic-pedagogical program can recognized as the profile entrance exam upon application.
Podium Profile
The podium profile creates a lot of freedom in the course of the program, in order to be able to devote oneself to the desired goal of the artist. The main weight of the program hangs on the artistic focus. Special value is placed on stage presence, solo performance skills, coherent programming, and artistically self-sufficient and differientated interpretive abilities.
Orchestra/Vocal Ensemble Profile
In the orchestra profile, special emphasis is placed on ensemble playing and preparation for the orchestra with audition trainings. To that effect, a major point of the bachelor degree lies on the presentation of relevant orchestral excerpts. For students of the vocal ensemble profile,the study focus is on individual lessons, work in a choir or vocal ensemble, and choral conducting. In the framework of the bachelor degree, choir and vocal ensemble pieces are performed.
Orchestra Profile Length: about 20 minutes
- Strings, woodwinds, brass, harp:
- A movement of a relevant audition concerto
- Three orchestra excerpts of medium difficulty level
- Sight-reading
- Percussion
- Typical audition works/etudes for snare drum, timpani, and mallet playing (two and four mallet technique)
- Two orchestral excerpts for each instrument: timpani, mallets, and snare drum
- Sight-reading
Vocal Ensemble Profile Length: about 20 minutes
- Lieder/Arias
- Sight-singing
- Choral excerpts from the following list:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Introitus and Kyrie from the Requiem
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Kyrie I or III from the B minor mass
- Johannes Brahms: 4th movement of the German Requiem "Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen"
- A work from the following composers: Claude Debussy: from Trois Chansons "Dieu, qui la fait," Béla Bartók: from Slovakian Folksongs, Paul Hindemith: from Six Chansons (e.g, "Oh, la biche"), Igor Stravinsky: from Symphony of Psalms, 2nd or 3rd movement.
Secondary Profile
With multiple secondary profiles, the University offers especially talented students the possibility to acquire additional, professionally relevant qualifications while in the bachelor program, such as in composition, music theory, wind ensemble conducting, or early music. Instead of electives, the secondary profile students enroll themselves in a carefully coordinated package of courses, in order to be able to successfully lay the foundations in this area well.
Composition and Music Theory
In Music Theory/Composition, particularly talented students receive the possibility to deepen their knowledge in a secondary profile.
The following subjects are offered:
- Composition/music theory
- Instrumentation
- Analysis
- Electro-acoustic music
- Didaktics/methodology of music theory
- Playing from the score
Wind Ensemble Conducting
The secondary profile "Wind Ensemble Conducting" accommodates the great demand for conductors in the wind ensemble area.
This secondary profile is comprised by the following subjects:
- Wind ensemble conducting
- Conducting internship/rehearsal technique
- Seminar orchestra
- Study of literature
- Applied music theory
- Arranging
- Shadowing
Early Music
The Early Music secondary profile meets the demands of students and the market requirements for expertise of "modern" instrumentalists in historically informed performance practice. The students profit from the internationally renowned Trossingen Institute for Performance Practice (formerly Early Music) with its excellent artistic and musicological expertise and the large pool of instruments and scores.
This secondary profile contains the following subjects:
- Main instrument, including "prima vista playing"
- Historical performance practice and organology
- Artistic work with figured bass
- Chamber music/ensemble
- Figured bass
