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Bachelor of Music Vocal

The study programme is meant for study applicants seeking a professional career as a singer. You have basic skills in music theory and piano and have already shaped your singing talents through lessons. The suitability for the programme will be proven in an aptitude test.

The programme offers a clear focus on vocal performance skills in the central and music practice modules. After completing the modules in music practice, musicology/theory and teaching, students choose a profile from the fifth semester onwards. In the profiles, individual emphasis can be placed on practical music, vocal pedagogy or musicology/music theory.

Graduates can actively participate in professional musical life. They have a fundamental knowledge of musicology, music theory, music education and teaching methodology, enabling them to reflect on and communicate their own music-making.

In addition to individual vocal qualifications, the MHL considers stage training to be indispensable for all professional singing fields. Graduates need acting skills in musical theatre, on the concert stage and in vocal pedagogy. That is why acting and musical theatre lessons are already included in the first practical music modules.

If the ‘Stage Practice Vocal’ profile is chosen, this focus continues until the end of the programme and concludes with a module examination in a music theatre production. By choosing the instrumental or vocal teaching profile (IGP), an additional professional qualification can be acquired.

Cooperation with various theatres offers students regular opportunities to audition. During these auditions, they receive feedback from professionals. Further cooperation (including with the Culture and Education Centre in Bad Oldesloe) also enables stage productions outside the MHL. Cooperation with the parish of St. Jakobi in Lübeck enables regular oratorio performances.

As a supplement to music theatre lessons and as an examination project, one of the two music theatre productions is usually supervised by guest directors each year. This allows students to become familiar with different working methods in this professional field during the course of their studies. Interdisciplinary projects involving singing and music theory classes also deepen the interdisciplinary exchange within the university and bring it to the public through presentations. Master classes regularly round off the range of courses on offer.

Main subject

• Pre-selection based on a video submission, the content and formal requirements of which can be found below.

Singing in the face-to-face part of the aptitude test

• Performance of at least four works from different stylistic periods (one of which must have been composed after 1920) from the genres of song, oratorio and opera

Piano as a compulsory subject

• Performance of two moderately difficult piano pieces of different character

Music theory (written and practical)

• Basic knowledge of major-minor tonal harmony,
• knowledge of formal principles and genres,
• playing cadences

Aural training (written)

• Recognition of intervals, chords, rhythmic and harmonic relationships,
• single and two-part musical dictation

Text recitation

• Recitation of a prepared prose text or poem (from memory)
• and recitation of a text announced shortly before

The video must be uploaded before the application deadline: before that, please send in your application via the online application portal.

In the video, the applicant must be clearly recognisable. No technical editing is allowed within a performed work. The video should not be older than 6 months. Piano accompaniment is optional. Works performed in the video can also be part of the repertoire for the in-person aptitude test.

Requirements

• Works from two stylistic eras, one of them in German
• Video length: approx. 15 minutes