I have posted this question before but still have not received the information I am looking for.
I am sitting my AmusA exam in two weeks and as I don’t have a current syllabus (and cannot afford to buy one), was wondering if someone that did could look up what exactly the general knowledge requirements for an Associate Diploma of Music (piano) are.
I am desperate so any help would be greatly appreciated.
ok with general knowledge there aren’t any specific requirements. you need a thorough knowledge of the works. basically know them backwards. you also need some general knowledge about the composer. With the works you need to know:
1.The style of the piece/ what period does it come from and what elements of that period does the work use?
2.What the work is? If you are doing a Impromptu you need to know what it is. Some famous works of that composition will help.
3. Basic form, keys, time signatures etc.
4. When the piece was composed, not period, you need a time frame such as a decade or a specific year. This will help when you are knowing about the style
5. Definitions of all terms
Then comes the second bit ‘the composer’.
1. Their basic life story. Where they were born (helps if they were nationalistic), where they worked, who they were taught by, what instruments they learnt etc.
2. Famous works. You must know their famous work, what kind of compospreferably yourote and you need to know how many? preferably you might want to listen to them so you know what they sound like. e.g if you are doing a Haydn Sonsymphonieseed to know how many string quartets and symphonys he did? Don’t Know? FAIL.
3. What those famous works were. e.g If you were doing a Bach prelude and fugue and theContemporaries’s a passion was. don’t know? FAIL.
4. Contempories : what other composers of that period were?
GOOD LUCK.