Study a secondary profile in your Bachelor
With several secondary profiles, the university offers particularly talented students the opportunity to acquire additional professionally relevant qualifications during their Bachelor's degree, such as in composition and music theory or in wind band conducting and early music. Instead of elective modules, students enrolled in a secondary profile take a carefully coordinated package in order to be able to successfully lay foundations in this area too.
Basically, students in Bachelor programmes I-III have these alternatives
- Students either use their elective area to attend a variety of courses at the University. Connected to this is the option to take two semesters of 30-minute private lessons in the elective area (see form templates in the Information Center).
- Or students can apply for a secondary profile instead of taking elective modules. The secondary profile has its own course plan (see below). The additional lesson requirement is generally limited to one credit hour per semester. An application and passing the profile entrance examination is required.
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
BA-ZP-20-1: Music Theory and Composition (in German)
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
BA-ZP-20-2: Wind Ensemble Conducting (in German)
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
BA-ZP-20-3: Early Music (in German)