Three-year programme

• Academic first-level courses
• Rules and Regulations
• From the previous system to academic courses
• Admission and registration programme
• Basic course admission test (for new entrants only)

 

STUDY PROGRAMMES FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED PRIOR TO THE 2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR

STUDY PROGRAMMES FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED AFTER THE 2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR

Academic first-level courses

The didactic offer of the “F.A. Bonporti” Conservatoire of Music in Trento, with respect to the first-level academic courses, will take on an ordinal form starting from the academic year 2010-11.

This project is developed in a function of integrating, in the new form, the Schools and Courses of the previous regulations already active at the Conservatoire, as well as the experimental Three-year Upper Level Courses, which the Conservatoire of Trento has been authorised to activate in recent years.

The new organisation responds to a set of regulations, which provide it with guidelines, definitions and determinations. These are, in particular, Presidential Decree no. 212/05 – Regulations governing the definition of the didactic regulations of the Institutions of High Artistic, Musical and Coreutical Education, pursuant to Article 2 of Law no. 508 of 21 December 1999; Ministerial Decree no. 90 of 3 July 2009 – Artistic-disciplinary sectors of the Music Conservatories); Ministerial Decree no. 154 of 12 November 2009 (types of training activities and credit-hour ratio).

The following is an outline of the educational curriculum that the “F.A. Bonporti” Conservatoire of Music draws up and proposes to its users for the first academic level.

• ENTRANCE EXAMINATION PROGRAMME
• ADMISSION EXAMINATION FOR THE THREE-YEAR JAZZ PROGRAMME
• ADMISSION EXAMINATION FOR THE THREE-YEAR POP PROGRAMME
• ADMISSION TO THE ACADEMIC DIPLOMA WITHOUT CATCH-UP MMB

Rules and Regulations

• Rules for the Recognition of Credits
• Didactic Regulations Conservatoire
• Recognition of foreign qualifications

From the previous system and experimentally activated three-year courses, towards the system of first-level academic courses.

The Conservatoire of Trento, in accordance with the criteria established by Presidential Decree 212/2005, and furthermore by Ministerial Decrees 90/2009 (disciplinary sectors), 124/2009 (didactic regulations for first-level academic courses), 154/2009 (ratio of credit hours) has drawn up its own educational offer of new first-level regulations, activated starting from the academic year 2010-11, primarily with reference to the courses already active at its premises, including those in an experimental form.

Admission and registration programme

As of the academic year 2010-11, the first-level academic courses become regular. The experience of several years, produced through the activation of courses in an experimental form, is thus incorporated. With the organisation of the new first-level academic courses, these take over from the courses of the previous organisation. The new courses are structured in quite different terms. They are articulated over a three-year period, they are built in relation to a plurality of training areas and teachings. Multidisciplinary teaching is a strong condition. The teachings are integrated into an organic architecture and are also comparable on the basis of the measure of credits. The work associated with a teaching, an educational endeavour, finds its measure in the unit of academic credits. These represent the work that comes with a course, both in the form of lectures and the commitment required of students, as self-study. The combination of a carefully designed structure that connects training areas according to the functions that come to play in the architecture of a study plan, and of what the measures of credits that are connected to the courses propose in relations, relationships and balances, tends to construct training architectures where the local and the global refer to each other, moving along defined and clear lines of objectives.

For admission to a first-level academic course, it is necessary to produce a specific application and to take an entrance examination, which assesses the presence of the required entry competences and assigns any potential deficits. Required entry competences: aptitude, knowledge and technical skills appropriate to the level; good general musical culture; pre-academic training that allows a generally cohesive connection to the level of academic studies. For courses in which the pre-academic system is active, it is therefore necessary to demonstrate a level of preparation similar to that required for the competence exam C of the pre-academic system.

A prerequisite for attendance is possession of a 2nd level secondary school diploma (ex high school diploma), with the possibility, however, for the most deserving, to obtain it within the three-year period.
Attendance is incompatible with attendance of another two-year specialised second-level or three-year ordinary course. For students attending both a university course and an academic course at the Conservatoire at the same time, the criteria and procedures set out in Ministerial Decree 28/09/2011 will be adopted. Interested parties are required to submit this form to the teaching secretary’s office.

Click here for the regulations for Part-Time.

ENTRANCE EXAMINATION PROGRAMME

Basic course admission test

Before the start of the academic year, newly enrolled students will have to take tests to define any educational deficits.

REPERTOIRE ANALYSIS TEST

Test programme

Test (in person): 29/09/2022 at 10.00 a.m. at the Trento campus via S.Giovanni Bosco n.4 – to register and for any requests for clarifications please contact Prof. Roberto Gianotti by email (roberto.gianotti@conservatorio.tn.ti), or Prof. Tarcisio Battisti ( tarcisio.battisti@conservatorio.tn.it) .

The student shall demonstrate that he/she possesses the harmonic-analytical knowledge required to attend the Repertoire Analysis courses of the Three-year academic programme.

All students enrolled in the Three-year academic programme must attend the three-year course in REPERTOIRE ANALYSIS:

• REPERTOIRE ANALYSIS I (36 ore)
• REPERTOIRE ANALYSIS II (36 ore)
• REPERTOIRE ANALYSIS III (30 ore)

EXCLUDED FROM THE TEST ARE
Those who have the following qualifications that allow direct admission to the first course:

• Complementary Harmony Licence (General Music Culture) from the previous system
• State examination obtained at a Liceo Musicale (Musical Baccalaureate)
• Competence of Competence A of the pre-academic course
• Lower qualification from the pre-academic composition course
• Certificate of Competence A of the pre-academic course in Composition
• Inferior Completion of the former Organ course.

EXCLUDED FROM THE TEST ARE
Because they follow specific composition courses, students of:

• Composition,
• Instrumentation for Band,
• Choir Conducting,
• Renaissance and Baroque Singing,
• Harpsichord,
• Lute,
• Music Education,
• Jazz,
• Electronic music,
• Popular Music.

In the absence of these qualifications, the student shall have to prove that he/she possesses the harmonic-analytical knowledge required to attend the three-year repertoire analysis courses.

To this end, he/she will have to pass an entrance test, which will be held on 29 September 2022 at 10.00 a.m. at the Trento premises in via S.Giovanni Bosco n.4.

The test consists of:

• a written exam (duration 4 hours) of harmonisation of a bass with modulations and progressions.

Students who do not pass the test or who did not present themselves at the roll-call for the test will have to attend the 45-hour remedial course held by a REPERTOIRE ANALYSIS teacher at a time to be determined.

It is possible to take the remedial course and the first three-year REPERTOIRE ANALYSIS course at the same time.

It is not possible to take the exam for the latter course prior to the completion of the remedial course with subsequent passing of the test or by decision of the course teacher.

MUSIC HISTORY TEST

Test programme
Call:

19/09/2022 at 8.50

N.B. students enrolled in Popular Music, Jazz and Electronic Music courses must only attend the oral examination at 10.30 a.m.

Three-year degree students are required to take the Competency Certification Exam A to be passed before taking the first-year exam of the academic level; they may, however, attend the lessons of the academic courses History and Historiography of Music in the meantime.

In preparation for the certification exam, students must refer to the recommended bibliography and may attend lessons in the regular pre-academic courses.

EXCLUDED FROM THE TEST ARE:

• those who have an equivalent certification (Liceo musicale, Licence in History of Music of the old system, certification of competence A in History of Music of the Pre-academic course of the Conservatoire of Trento or other Conservatoire)
• foreign students

BASIC MUSICAL MATTERS TESTS

Test programme
Convocation – TRENTO – VIA S.G. BOSCO, 4

As of academic year 2019/2020, the test is concurrent with admission. Three-year degree students are required to take the Competency Certification Exam B to be passed before taking the first-year Music Theory exam of the academic level; they may, however, attend classes in the academic Music Theory courses in the meantime.

EXCLUDED FROM THE TEST ARE
Those with the following qualifications that allow direct admission to the first Music Theory course:

• Solfeggio Certificate;
• B Certificate in Basic Musical Matters;
• Music High School diploma;
• Proof of skills at a level equal to or higher than the previous points;
• Positive assessment at the end of the Propaedeutic Course held at the “F.A. Bonporti” Conservatoire.

Basic musical matters – test examples

PRACTICAL PIANO TEST

Test programme

Convocation:
– first call 8/09/20 22; second call 29/09/2022 – TRENTO – VIA S.G. BOSCO, 4 – RIVA DEL GARDA

To register for the assessment test and for any queries, please contact Prof. Antoniacomi Paola (paola.antoniacomi@conservatorio.tn.it) by email.

EXEMPTED FROM THE ASSESSMENT TEST ARE THOSE
who have the following qualifications

• Complementary piano licence from the previous system
• Students from Music High School
• Certificate of Competency A in piano practice from pre-academic courses or higher levels (including main piano examinations)
• Proficiency in piano practice obtained following attendance of propaedeutic courses

In the absence of such qualifications, the student will have to prove that he or she has the technical-instrumental skills required to attend the piano practice courses included in the three-year study plan.

The practice test consists of the performance of the following programme:

• 8 major and relative minor scales for parallel motion in the minimum range of 2 octaves
• 2 etudes by different composers
• 2 piano pieces by different composers and epochs with a total duration of at least 5 minutes
• sight-reading of a piece assigned by the committee.

Students who do not pass the test or do not present themselves for the test will have to attend a 10-hour make-up course and will only be able to start attending the first year of the Three-year piano practice course after passing the examination at the end of the course.