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Admission requirements for BA – Electronic Music Media

In case of non-instrumental majors, tuition is only offered in English if there are a minimum of 3 international students admitted in a given year to the same major.
 
Admission requirements are the same for in person and online applicants unless indicated otherwise.

Main Subject

  • Presentation of the applicant's portfolio of previous electronic and instrumental compositions, either as a recording or a live performance.
  • Realization and presentation of a study approximately 1 minute in length using the Audacity and SPEAR audio editing software. Applicants have a maximum of 2 hours to complete the task.

 

Compulsory SUBJECTS

A) SOLFEGE – MUSIC THEORY

Written exam:

  • Auditory test: Assessment of timbre and interval recognition and memory.
  • General test:
    • Assessment of intelligence, musical, artistic, and computer knowledge.
    • Evaluation of acoustic and mathematical knowledge (based on the advanced-level mathematics and physics graduation requirements published on the OM website: 1. knowledge of right-angle coordinate systems and the sine function from advanced-level mathematics, 2. knowledge of acoustics from advanced-level physics).
    • Evaluation of electroacoustic music knowledge (see the list of composers and works below here).
  • Transcription of a two-part Baroque or Viennese Classical piece by ear, 8-12 bars (played 8-10 times).
  • Transcription of a monophonic 20th-century piece by ear, 8-10 bars (played 8-10 times).
  • Interval test: transcription of tonal interval chains, triads, and their inversions from given notes (played 2-3 times).
  • Rhythm transcription (played 6-8 times).

 

Oral exam:

  • Sight-reading a classical or Baroque melody: László Agócsy: Solfège Intermediate Level II-III. (Editio Musica Budapest).
  • J. S. Bach: Workbook for Solfège Students (Editio Musica Budapest).
  • Singing intervals, triads, and their inversions from given notes.
  • Clapping back rhythm patterns after hearing them.

 

B) PIANO AS COMPULSORY SUBJECT

Demonstration of piano proficiency, or another acoustic or electronic instrument proficiency.

Piano:

  • One piece from Bach: Eighteen Little Preludes
  • First movement of a classical sonatina (Sheet music: Könnyű szonatinák (EMB 2719), 15 könnyű szonáta, Szonatina album (EMB 1280))
  • A piece of the candidate’s choice from Béla Bartók’s Microcosmos II

 

C) FOLK MUSIC

  • Informal conversation about the folk music of the candidate's country.

 

List of pieces and movies:

Pieces of music:

  • Pierre Henry-Pierre Schaeffer: Symphonie pour un homme seul
  • John Cage: 4’33”
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kontakte (Nr. 12 1/2)
  • Bernard Parmegiani: Ondes Croisées
  • Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango
  • Edgar Varèse: Ionisation
  • Jean-Claude Risset: Songes
  • Steve Reich: Different Trains
  • Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room
  • Helmut Lachenmann: Pression
  • Georg Friedrich Haas: Ein Schattenspiel
  • László Vidovszky: Autoconcert

Movies:

  • Norman McLaren: Neighbours
  • Hommage to Old Ladies (original sound, directed by Zoltán Huszárik, music by Zoltán Jeney).
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (directed by Stanley Kubrick).
  • Thierry de Mey: Rosas danst Rosas/Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
  • Berberian Sound Studio (directed by Peter Strickland).
  • Arrival (directed by Denis Villeneuve).
  • Wall-E (directed by Andrew Stanton, sound design by Ben Burtt).
  • Hukkle (directed by György Pálfi, sound design by Tamás Zányi).