First-cycle studies - 2026/2027

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COMPOSITION AND THEORY OF MUSIC - Theory of Music, first-cycle

Details
Code KTM-TM-SL
Organizational unit Department of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music
Field of studies Composition and theory of music
Form of studies Full-time
Level of education First cycle
Educational profile academic
Language(s) of instruction Polish
Duration 3 years
Required document
  • Baccalaureate or an equivalent diploma
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Past phases in this registration:
  • Phase 1 (01.05.2026 00:00 – 31.05.2026 23:59)

The programme educates theoreticians for conducting scholarly research and teaching theoretical subjects. It also educates writers, lecturers and organisers of music life and provides preparation for editorial work in the press, radio and television. First-cycle studies prepare students for further education.

Teachers of the major subject:

  • prof. dr hab. Marcin Łukaszewski
  • prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Szymańska-Stułka
  • dr hab. Iwona Świdnicka

 

Tests

  • harmony – an oral and at the piano test
  • ear training – an oral test
  • forms and analysis of a music work – an oral test

 

Scope of material

  • harmony – an oral test: practical test at the piano – implementation of harmony function marks, harmonization of melodies in soprano or bass, playing cadenzas and progressions; modulations, characteristic chords resolution, harmonization of major and minor (melodic) scales, harmonic analysis
  • ear training – an oral test
    • test of musical memory and imagination
    • sight singing
  • forms and analysis of a music work – an oral test: checking the ability to analyse a short baroque, classical, romantic or 20th century work of music based on the score in piano notation. General principles of structure of music forms, such as: polyphonic forms, sonata-allegro, rondo, variations, cyclic forms, with reference to music literature.

 

Additional documents – not required