Preparation course for the aptitude test in music theory | aural training
Preparation course for the aptitude test in music theory | aural training at conservatories
! Attention ! This offer is not aimed at applicants for jazz study programmes
When: Saturday, 4 May 2024, 10:00-13:00 (followed by a lunch break) and 14:00-17:30
Where: "Johann Nepomuk Hummel" Music School Weimar, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 1, 99423 Weimar (meeting point: secretary's office)
Course leader: Students of the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar specialising in music theory
XVII Central German Conference on Music Theory and Listening Education
XVII Central German Conference on Music Theory and Listening Education - Music and Nature
When: 9-10 March 2024
Where: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Music Education, Studiobühne, 06108 Halle, Dachritzstraße 6, 4th floor
Is music a reflection of the world as a whole? Do sounds communicate with the surrounding nature? Or vice versa: in what way does nature become the object of music? These are just some of the questions that have arisen time and again, in part since the earliest phases of human development, but also with ever new facets right up to the present day. In this respect, the theme of this year's conference is universal in a very special way, and the topics are correspondingly wide-ranging. In some cases, the focus will be on individual musical works, in others on larger lines of development, and some of the presentations will be devoted to completely different, sometimes surprising aspects of the theme of "Music and Nature". The programme is complemented by a concert dealing with references to nature in the music of the English Renaissance and a presentation of the verrophone, a very unusual, relatively new instrument whose sound is often described as natural and primal.
Master Concert Music Theory - Diana Lizura
Master concert music theory - Diana Lizura, piano
Works for various instrumentations from vocal ensemble to piano duo and piano trio by Diana Lizura
When: Saturday, 24.02.2024, 19:30 h
Where: Weimar, University of Music FRANZ LISZT, Saal Am Palais
Admission: free
Final concert music theory - Roman Engelhardt
Stylised compositions - a journey through the eras with Roman Engelhardt
Piano and chamber music works in the style of Orlando di Lasso, J.S. Bach, J. Haydn, F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, J. Brahms and C. Debussy. Debussy
When: Wednesday, 07.02.2024, 18:00 h
Where: Weimar, University of Music FRANZ LISZT, Saal Am Palais
Admission: free
E-learning day
E-Learning Day - Creativity today: How is AI changing music?
When: Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 09:15-14:45
Where: Lecture theatre, hzh, Carl-Alexander-Platz 1, Weimar
For registration please contact: gute.lehre(at)hfm-weimar.de
Erasmus visit by Pierluca Lanzilotta
Erasmus visit from our colleague Pierluca Lanzilotta from the Conservatorio "Claudio Monteverdi" in Bolzano
When: Monday, 27 November 2023 to Friday, 1 December 2023
Pierluca Lanzilotta will participate in courses and give the lecture at the colloquium on current research questions in musicology on Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Preparatory course for the aptitude test in the subsidiary subjects of music theory / aural training at conservatoires
Preparatory course for the aptitude test in music theory / aural training at conservatories
When: Saturday, 18 November 2023, 10.00-13.00 and 14.00-17.30
Where: Music School "Johann Nepomuk Hummel" Weimar
Course leader: Students of the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar specialising in music theory
Preparatory course for aptitude test in subsidiary subjects Music Theory / Aural Training
→ To the preparatory course for aptitude test in subsidiary subjects Music Theory / Aural Training (Classical) on 6 May 2023
Weimar Conference for Music Theory
"In the Style of ...": Lectures, workshops, discussions and a concert about "ways to invent music"
ATTENTION: The meeting has been moved at short notice to the Festsaal Fürstenhaus!
→ To the conference flyer (German, PDF)
Style copies play a major role in music theory education - but the very word is worthy of discussion: can a copy have artistic value? And doesn't copying contradict music theory's claim to be an artistic subject? That this approach has didactic potential and is suitable for motivating students should be undisputed - but shouldn't we then rather speak of "style-related composing"? And what points of contact do such concepts of becoming creative offer for teaching in schools and music schools?
The Weimar Conference 2023 therefore provides the overall theme "In the style of ..." with the subtitle "Ways to invent music", and this should explicitly include analyzing and listening - and thus "music theory and listening education": These disciplines have always tried to bring together the Central German Conferences, which take place in rotation in Weimar, Halle and Leipzig. After Halle (2020) and Leipzig (2022, after the Corona-related cancellation in 2021), we have now (2023) returned to Weimar.
Based on the experiences of the last events, we have condensed the program to two days, and we are looking forward to an intensive exchange on February 24 and 25, 2023, also on a European level: we will have three guests from the University Mozarteum Salzburg. Composers - and their works as stylistic models - are one focus of our preoccupation, another goes into implementation: How can this be taught and actively shaped? And what are examples of successful sound creations "in the style of" - for example in the further composing of fragments?
We are very much looking forward to the report by Peter Gülke, the 2014 Siemens Prize winner, who will describe his approach to Schubert's Symphonic Fragments; Ulrich Kaiser, on the other hand, will make the connection to songwriting. We thus want to be a forum where many music enthusiasts meet and which also brings together various working groups of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH) such as the "AG Musikunterricht" and the "AG Musikschulen".
As partners for this conference, the Center for Music Theory of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, the Department of Composition / Tonsatz of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig and the Institute for Music of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg join forces with the GMTH again.
So may the paths to music discovery lead to Weimar: We look forward to welcoming you to our Festsaal Fürstenhaus!
Programme
Friday, February 24, 2023 | Festsaal Fürstenhaus
14.00 Welcome - Prof. Anne-Kathrin Lindig, President of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
Impulse lecture - Prof. Dr. Gesine Schröder, Leipzig | Deceptively Real Forgeries and Appropriation Art. On the intermediate and final purpose of style copies
14.30 Prof. Dr. Sigrun Heinzelmann, Salzburg | "À la manière de..." - Ravel's creative handling of models
3.15 p.m. Prof. Dr. Peter Gülke, Weimar | On special information from fragments - Schubert's failed symphonies
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Marcus Aydintan, Weimar | Composing Piano Dances (with Nicolas Absalom and Gergö Bauer, piano)
17.00 h Prof. Dr. Juliane Brandes, Salzburg | Stylistic composition as a subject of teaching and research as well as an independent artistic-scientific discipline
17.30 Dr. Georg Biegholdt, Leipzig / Prof. Almut Gatz, Würzburg / Arne Lüthke, Leipzig | Composing, Moving, Listening. Ways to music theory in elementary school
18.15 Time for dinner (individual)
19.30 Impulse and concert
- Copies of styles in music theory lessons in different countries
- Short lectures: Nataliia Ryzhkova, Moscow / Erik Schroeder, Salzburg / Roman Engelhardt, Weimar
- Liszt Fragments: M.K. and Andante religiosamente
- Introduction: Prof. Jörn Arnecke / Marcus Aydintan / Johanna Koerrenz / Elias Wöllner, Weimar
- Performance by piano students of the university: Nicolas Absalom, Gergö Bauer
Saturday, February 25, 2023 | Festsaal Fürstenhaus
9.00 a.m. Elke Reichel, Weimar | Workshop: Inventing canons based on historical models
9.45 a.m. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kaiser, Munich | Songwriting without ideas?!
10.30 a.m. Jan Esra Kuhl, Leipzig | Copying styles in the classroom for future high school teachers
11.00 a.m. Coffee break
11.30 Prof. Jens Marggraf, Halle | Forward to the Past. E. T. A. Hoffmann's 6 Canzone and the Beginning of Historicizing Composing
12.00 Dr. Maik Richter, Weißenfels | Schütz macht Schule. Musical-digital classroom in the Heinrich-Schütz-Haus Weißenfels
12.30 p.m. Markus Ritzel, Halle | Erik Satie - an attempt at rapprochement
13.00 Lunch break / Meeting AG Musikunterricht / AG Musikschulen
14.30 Sven Daigger, Weimar | Ravel's "Bolero" as a digital instrumentation project with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
15.00 Stefan Garthoff, Naumburg | Workshop: Klingt cringe. Arranging for the classroom.
4.30 p.m. Closing plenary
Tag des E-Learnings
Digitalisierung - für wen, was und wozu?
Der zweite „Tag des e-Learnings“ am 29. Juni 2022 an der Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar stellt verschiedene Wege vor, Fantasie und Digitales zusammenzubringen: Künstliche Intelligenz komponiert wie Mozart, der Computer schreibt stilgebundene Chorsätze aus der Zeit um 1600, erfindet Musik wie ein Vogelschwarm und hilft bei musikalischen Grundlagen und der Analyse.
Unterstützt durch den Stifterverband in Verbindung mit dem Thüringer Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Digitale Gesellschaft, soll an diesem Tag Neues geboten und diskutiert werden, können die Potenziale unserer Hochschule zum e-Learning aufgezeigt werden. Die Studierenden sind herzlich eingeladen, sich aktiv einzubringen: Welche digitalen Kompetenzen möchten sie in ihrem Studium vermittelt bekommen?
Anmeldung unter: dorothea.warneck(at)hfm-weimar.de
Preparatory Course
Preparatory course for the audition in music theory/ aural training at music academies
When: Saturday, May 21, 2022, 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Where: Music school "Johann Nepomuk Hummel" Weimar
Lecturers: Students of the LISZT University (focus on music theory)
→ Further information and registration
You can find a sample exam with solutions here:
- Sample of an audition in the minor subject music theory
- Solution to the sample
- Glossary of the most important terms for the audition of the minor subjects music theory and aural training
XV. Mitteldeutsche Tagung Musiktheorie und Hörerziehung
"Heimat in der Fremde"
13. – 15. Mai 2022
Die Musik, die an deutschen Musikschulen, allgemeinbildenden Schulen und Hochschulen gemacht und unterrichtet wird, ist oft nicht „rein europäisch“. Seit Jahrhunderten fließen Elemente entfernter Kulturen in sie ein. Wo gibt es in „klassischer“ Musik fremde und wo vertraute Elemente? Sind wir in Musik beheimatet, die Fremdes einschließt? Heute ist Musik aus entlegenen Weltgegenden meist nur einen Klick entfernt, gleichwohl bleibt sie exotisch, man hält sie außen vor; in Schulen, Seminare oder den Instrumentalunterricht findet sie kaum Eingang.
