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Access to Higher Artistic Studies. Preparation Course

SPECIFIC ACCESS TEST FOR PEOPLE WITHOUT ACADEMIC REQUIRIMENTS

SPECIFIC ACCESS TEST

June Call

  • Registration
    • All through the platform ARTIC Course Registration
    • A week before the admitted students will receive an email in which they will be indicated the time slot in which they must make the registration and selection of schedule.
    • The detailed schedules of the subjects: Main instrument, Chamber music, Repertoire with piano, Applied Piano, Complementary Piano / Related Instrument, will be given in September before starting the course.

September Call

Applicants who have passed the test but have not obtained a place are part of the waiting list (unless they indicate otherwise) and will be notified by email if there is any resignation.

  • Registration
    • All through the platform ARTIC Course Registration
    • A week before the admitted students will receive an email in which they will be indicated the time slot in which they must make the registration and selection of schedule.

Regulations

RESOLUCIÓ de 28 de febrer de 2022, de la Direcció  de l’Institut Superior d’Ensenyances Artístiques de la Comunitat Valenciana, per la qual es convoquen les proves d’accés a les ensenyances artístiques superiors per al curs 2022-2023.

RESOLUCIÓ de 24 de març de 2022 de la directora de l’Institut Superior d’Ensenyances Artístiques de la Comunitat Valenciana, per la qual es designa el tribunal encarregat de realitzar la prova específica d’accés al títol de Grau en Ensenyances Artístiques Superiors de Música del Conservatori Superior de Música Óscar Esplá d’Alacant.

Have a Junior-High Degree homologated (a certification of the degree) by Spanish Ministerio de Educación  or have passed succesfully the entrance test for mature students over 25 years  for college or university studies.

If you don’t meet this requirement and your are over 16 years old, you can take a special test according to the  article 69, “Enseñanzas Postobligatorias”, section 5, of the Ley Orgánica 2/2006, de 3 de mayo, de Educación.

It consists of several exercises for each of the following specialties:

A. INTERPRETATION

1. Interpretation of a 30-minute program of at least three different styles. The applicant must interpret, at least, a work of memory. This test has an eliminatory character and represents, in case of passing it, 50 percent of the final grade.
2. Structural and historical analysis of a musical fragment. It represents 25 percent of the final grade.
3. Reading in sight with the main instrument of the itinerary to which it is chosen. It represents 25 percent of the final grade.

Vocals
Double bass
Clarinet
Basoon
Flute
Guitar
Oboe
Percussion
Piano
Saxophone
Trombone
Horn
Trumpet
Tuba
Viola
Violin
Cello

B. COMPOSITION

  • Part One:
    It is eliminatory in nature and accounts for 60% of the final grade of the specific test. Applicants must obtain a grade equal to or greater than 5 out of 10 to be able to complete the second part.
    1.A. Harmonic, structural and stylistic analysis of a piece or musical fragment proposed by the court. It will represent 30% of the final grade.
    1.B. Writing exercise of harmonic, contrapuntal character or a combination of both types of writing. It will represent 30% of the final grade.
  • Part Two:
    It has no eliminatory character and represents 40% of the final grade of the specific test.
    2.A. Exercise of musical dictation or solphistic reading. It will represent 10% of the final grade.
    2.B. Piano performance of a piece prepared by the applicant and/or reading at the piano. It will represent 10% of the final grade.
    2.C. Interview about own works made by the applicant and defense of them, with a maximum of three works presented. It will represent 20% of the final grade

C. CONDUCTING

  • Part One:
    Eliminatory, it represents 50% of the final grade of the test. Applicants must obtain a grade equal to or greater than 5 out of 10 to be able to complete the second part.
    -Exercise 1: Solphistic test at first sight of one or more musical fragments determined by the evaluation commission, singing and accompanying himself with the gesture. It represents, if it exceeds it, 60% of the grade of the first part.
    – Exercise 2: Direct a work or fragment proposed by the evaluation commission. It represents, if it exceeds it, 20% of the grade of the first part.
    – Exercise 3: Personal interview with the evaluation commission. It represents, if it exceeds it, 20% of the grade of the first part.
  • Part Two. It has no eliminatory character and represents 50% of the final grade of the test.
    – Exercise 4: Structural and historical analysis of a musical fragment. It represents 10% of the final grade.
    – Exercise 5: Exercise of harmonization to four voices of a bass or tiple. It represents 10% of the final grade.
    – Exercise 6: Sight reading on the piano, with prior preparation on a piano. It represents 10% of the final grade.
    – Exercise 7: Realization of a melodic and harmonic dictation for four voices. It represents 20% of the final grade.

D. PEDAGOGY

  • Part One:
    Of an eliminatory nature, it represents in case of being passed, a third of the final grade of the test. Applicants must obtain a grade equal to or greater than 5 out of 10 to be able to complete the second part.
    – Exercise 1: Interpretation of a 30-minute program of at least three different styles. The applicant must interpret, at least, one work of memory.
  • Part Two:
    It has no eliminatory character and represents two thirds of the final grade of the test.
    – Exercise 2: Structural and historical analysis of a musical fragment. It represents one third of the final grade.
    – Exercise 3: Sight reading on the piano, with prior preparation on a piano. It represents one third of the final grade.

E. MUSICOLOGY

1. Interpretation of a 15-minute program of at least three different styles. It represents 25% of the final grade.
2. Structural and historical analysis of a musical fragment with score and audition. It represents 25% of the final grade.
3. Exercise of harmonization to four voices of a bass and / or tiple. It represents 25% of the final grade.
4. Commentary of a text of musical theme and questionnaire on it (historical, aesthetic, social and artistic aspects). It represents 25% of the final grade.

In any of the above specialties, to obtain the final weighted grade it will be mandatory to perform all the exercises of the tests.

The average grade of the professional studies record constitutes 50% of the grade of the specific entrance exam, in the case of being in possession of the Professional Title of Music, as long as the weighted qualification of all the exercises carried out is a qualification equal to or greater than 5.

Analysis Test Example
Composition Test Examples
Example Musicology Test
Example reading to 1st view Vocals
Example reading to 1st view Clarinet
Example reading to 1st view Bassoon
Example reading to 1st view Oboe
Example reading to 1st view Percussion
Example reading to 1st view Piano
Example reading to 1st view Saxophone
Example reading at 1st view Horn
Example reading at 1st view Trombone
Example reading to 1st view Trumpet
Example reading to 1st view Tuba
Example reading at 1st view Pedagogy
Example solfistic test Conducting
Examples reading at 1st view Conducting

Required documentation

1. Registration application (automatically generated when registering online)

2. DNI. Foreign citizens will present a photocopy of the passport and the NIE (foreigner’s identity number).

3. Bachelor’s degree, certificate of having passed the university entrance exam for people over 25 years of age or certificate of having passed the specific test for people without academic requirements (art. 69.5 LOE). Foreign students must present the homologation of the baccalaureate degree by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

4. Proof of payment of the fee for the entrance exam (€ 53.52). In order to obtain the fee form, it is essential to have a DNI or NIE.

– If you have the Professional Title of Music, a certificate that accredits it and in which the average grade is indicated

This test is addressed to the persons referred to in Article 69, paragraph 5, of Organic Law 2/2006, of May 3, on Education, who meet the years in the calendar year (until December 31) in which said test is held, who want to access higher artistic education and are not in possession of the Bachelor’s degree or have passed the university entrance exam for over 25 years old.

It is common to all higher artistic teachings and consists of the following parts:

a) Part One: History of Art

Exercise written from a given text and images related to the content of the text. From a text of History of Art (in Valencian and Spanish) and two images related to the text, several closed answer questions (test type) and open answer questions related to the text must be answered.

Basic curriculum for the contents of this test:

  • Art of prehistory: Franco-Cantabrian art and Levantine art. The beginnings of architecture in the Neolithic. Art of ancient civilizations: Egypt (characteristics and conventions).
  • Greek art: archaic period, classicism and Hellenism.
  • Roman art. Contributions of Roman art to the Greek and Etruscan tradition.
  • Art of the High Middle Ages: Byzantine, pre-Romanesque and Hispano-Muslim.
  • Romanesque art and Gothic art. Italian Trecento.
  • Renaissance Art: Quattrocento and Cinquecento.
  • he Baroque: characteristics of the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
  • Art of neoclassicism. Fundamental characteristics.
  • Nineteenth-century art: romanticism, historicism, realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, new materials and modernism.
  • Art of the twentieth century: 1st and 2nd avant-garde. Functionalism and rationalism. Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Metaphysical Painting, Surrealism and Geometric Abstraction. Trends since 1945.

b) Part Two: Language

To choose between Valencian Language or Spanish Language. From a given text of artistic theme, various questions will be asked about Grammar, Spelling and Lexicon.

Basic curriculum of Valencian Language for the contents of this test:

  • Grammatical categories. Sounds and spellings.
  • The simple sentence: subject and predicate. Letters, digraphs and composite letters.
  • Strong personal pronouns. Vowels and consonants.
  • The noun. The syllable, tonic and atone.
  • The adjective. Hyphenation of syllables.
  • The verb. Diphthongs.
  • The adverb. The graphic accent.
  • The compound sentence. The diacritical accent.
  • Weak pronouns Formal aspects. Functional aspects. The umlaut. Semantic fields and lexical families. Synonymy, antonymy and hyponymia among the words of the basic vocabulary.

Basic Curriculum of Spanish Language for the contents of this test:

  • The ideas of the texts. Highlight what’s important. Main ideas.
  • The summary of a text. Procedure for making a summary.
  • The arguments that support the ideas. Main arguments (data, appointments, personal experience, examples).
  • The connectors that link ideas. Those that indicate order. Those who express contrary ideas. Those who add new ideas. Those who propose examples. Those that indicate a cause or a consequence.
  • Develop an opinion.
  • The shape of words. Grammatical categories. Determinant, noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition. The parts of the words: root, desinence, prefix, suffix.
    The senses of words. Derived words (word families). Synonyms, hyponyms and hyperonyms.
  • Type correctly. Main problems: With accents. General rules. Accentuation of how, that, because. With vocabulary: capital letters, prefixes, incorrect verb forms, dequeism. With expressions “in front of me” … With homophonies (go, there, have, done, apart …).
  • Sintaxis. Syntax. The simple sentence. Locate subject and main components.
  • – Literary figures. Comparison, metaphor, hyperbole or exaggeration, rhetorical interrogation.

c) Part Three. Foreign language>a

To choose between English or French. From a text of artistic theme, various questions will be asked about grammar, spelling and lexicon.

Basic English curriculum for the contents of this test:

  • Present simple, There is/There are, Countable/ Uncountable nouns, Present continuous. Vocabulary: World of work.
  • Express like and dislike: like, love, enjoy, hate. Present simple vs. Present continuous. Vocabulary: Names of arts in general.– Prepositions. Vocabulary: Word creation: suffixes.
  • Past simple (regular verbs, irregular verbs). Past continuous. Vocabulary: Books and literature.
  • Uses of «like». Vocabulary: Physical activities.
  • Present perfect. Vocabulary: Food.
  • Future tenses (present simple with future meaning, be going to+infinitive). Vocabulary: Transport.
  • Modal verbs. Vocabulary: Cities.
  • Comparisons. Vocabulary: Environmental issues.
  • Passive voice. Vocabulary: Music.

Basic French curriculum for the contents of this test:

  • Le groupe du nom et les pronoms: Le nom et l’adjectif. Les articles. Les démonstratifs. Les possessifs. Les indéfinis. Les pronoms per-sonnels. Les pronoms relatifs.
  • Le verbe: Les constructions verbales. Les auxiliaires et les semi-auxiliaires. La forme passive. La forme pronominale. L’indicatif. Le subjonctif. Le conditionnel. L’impératif. L’infinitif.
  • La phrase: L’identification et la description. La phrase interroga-tive. La phrase négative. La mise en relief.
  • Les mots-outils: Les prépositions. Les adverbes.
  • L’expression de la pensée: Les prépositions complétives. Le dis-cours rapporté.
  • L’expression des circonstances: de la cause, de la conséquence, du but, du temps, de l’opposition, de l’hypothèse et de la condition, de la comparaison.

Each of the parts is scored from 0 to 10, with the final result of the test being the arithmetic mean of the three. The test is passed if this average is equal to or greater than 5, which means the qualification of Apt.

The passing of this test has permanent validity for the purposes of access to higher artistic education throughout the State.

If you do not pass this test, you will not be able to register for the specific test for access to higher artistic education in Music.

Required documentation:

  • DNI o NIE
  • Registration application (automatically generated when registering online)
  • Proof of payment of fees
  • If applicable, a copy of the documentation accrediting the exemption or bonus in the fees
  • If applicable, documentation accrediting the specific educational needs derived from physical, mental or sensory disabilities or other serious disorders, with official recognition whose degree is equal to or greater than 33%

The fee form (form 046) is obtained by registering online, clicking ‘Process payments‘ and selecting ‘Pay‘. It can also be made on the following page: Taxes and other income under public law → 9778 – Fee for higher artistic education. Tests. → Inline preparation and download of the model. Once the form has been generated, the payment can be made electronically by bank card or printed and paid in the collaborating entities indicated at the bottom of the document.

Exam models:

RESOLUCIÓ de 28 de febrer de 2022, de la Direcció de l’Institut Superior d’Ensenyances Artístiques de la Comunitat Valenciana, per la qual es convoquen les proves d’accés a les ensenyances artístiques superiors per al curs 2022-2023

Ley Orgánica 2/2006, de 3 de mayo, de Educación.

Ley Orgánica 3/2020, de 29 de diciembre, por la que se modifica la Ley Orgánica 2/2006, de 3 de mayo, de Educación.