COMPOSITION AND APPLIED MUSIC
PREPARATORY COURSE
Intensive preparatory course in Composition for admission to bachelor courses.
A path resulting from a careful fusion of traditional studies, such as counterpoint, orchestration, and contemporary professional issues, to provide the tools and skills to realize one’s musical ideas.
Duration 1 year
Frequency of 6 to 10 hours per week, in ordinary or long-distance mode
Where Rome/Milan
Language Italian/English
The preparatory composition course has a duration ranging from 1 to 2 years, depending on the level of each student; it is accessed through an audition.
Applied music studio, music for films, commercials, short films, documentaries, dance, theater, multimedia applications. Students will be able to develop their compositional skills with the help of ensembles and orchestras of real instrumentalists and with an in-depth study of virtual instruments.
Skills are acquired in the following areas:
- Study of traditional and contemporary compositional techniques for piano, voices and strings.
- Study of 3- and 4-part florid counterpoint and use in contexts of film music and music applied to images.
- In-depth study ofclassical and contemporary harmony up to 9th 11th and 13th and altered chords.
- Study of piano technique and the instrument as a means of composing.
- Music technology, sequencing software, notation software, virtual Instruments.
Upon successful completion of the last level of the pre-academic course, one automatically enters Level I academic courses, choosing from:
- three-year 1st cycle academic diploma in Film Music Composition
- three-year level I academic diploma program in Applied Music
in Composition and Applied Music:
- Check the admission requirements by clicking on ADMISSION INFO and STUDY PLAN
- Apply via the dedicated form by clicking on CANDIDATE APPLICATION.
- Wait for the call for admission tests
Each year, each student will tackle image-sounding experiences, and his or her original compositions will be performed by various ensembles, from string quartet to wind quintet, ending, at the end of each pre-academic year, with a performance by a 30-piece live orchestral ensemble, conducted by the same student, in a theater in Rome in sync with the images.
