Composition Diploma 2012 - Summer Session

Zedef wrote:

- lyrical scene: Montale's The Bat, which however cannot be found anywhere, does anyone know where it is taken from?

It could be:

Eugenio Montale, Diario Postumo, 1977

?

Marzapane wrote:

It could be:

Eugenio Montale, Diario Postumo, 1977

?

I found this, I don't know if it's right

http://thecounterpunchingradio.tumblr.com/post/7367982198/die-fledermaus

No, it's not that one. It's a fairly long text (3 pages) about a couple, in a hotel room, harassed by a bat.

Zedef wrote:

Who gave the diploma? How did it go?

...I have since oriented myself towards the three-year degree, so goodbye "clausure" ...perhaps there will only be one, regarding analysis, but it is still early

It occurs to me that ScalaQuaranta is surely involved, he even mentioned Il Pipistrello somewhere.

Do you happen to have at least part of the lyrics?

Already given Zedef, but your topic piqued my curiosity... I'll try to find out from some colleagues

I survived, everything is okay!!! but now that it's over, perhaps with a bit of irony, sarcasm, goliardic spirit, delirium, exasperation, and mystical visions, I wonder: did all this make sense? there are those who say yes, to test the physical/mental resistance of future potential composers... there are those who still say yes, in the sense that: [quoting a funny military song] "....I did twelve months too and por...%&/%£"£!...me, you do them too!" ;-P (even if here we are talking about only one month, but one of a certain substance).

i am sending you the text of the lyrical scene attached. which is the test I chose for the 15 days.

i had the chance to read other texts of lyrical scenes proposed in past years, but this year's

seemed quite disproportionate to me! 3 uninterrupted pages of dialogues, and I had to struggle quite a bit to be able to shape and divide them into the three typical and topical moments of the lyrical scene: the recitative, the aria, and the arioso.

anyway, guys... it was hard but this too is over!

I can't tell you much about the tracks from the other exams, because I have completely removed them.

but from rumors I have heard that they shouldn't be by known authors but could
have been written specifically for the exam (but take it with a grain of salt).

as is customary, I have also heard that if in the summer session the sonata for solo instrument

and piano comes out, almost automatically, in the autumn session the quartet comes out.

I don't know anything else

In my area, there have been no diplomas this year (let's thank the reform), so I don't have the topics; if someone were to publish them, I could make some hypotheses.

However, I am gathering information through acquaintances, especially regarding the Montale matter; among other things, if I am not mistaken, it is still covered by copyright.

In general, the level and type of tests are extremely variable, as the teachers designated to prepare the tests themselves always change, so every time it's an unknown. I confirm that sometimes topics are even written specifically for the occasion.

ScalaQuaranta wrote:

i had the opportunity to read other texts of opera scenes proposed in past years

Can you quote some of them?

to prepare myself for the opera scene, I worked on a text proposed a few years ago, I believe.

i am sending it attached.

this is definitely muuuuch more human, compared to that damn bat! ;-S

Thank you!

ScalaQuaranta wrote:

i survived

Let us know also how it went and especially with the Theremin ;)

I think the composition diploma is almost extinct, with rare exceptions; I haven't seen any either ....

how did it go with the theremin? good question....in my opinion they didn't even notice that there

was a theremin in the lineup. anyway, I lost sleep writing all my beautiful little things....it is a

satisfaction, what is there to say!!

I read the text in question and did some quick research: although I don't have a degree in literature, it really seems to me that Montale has very little to do with it.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the first hoax during a diploma exam, and let's hope it's the last one.

I have recovered some information; the story should be part of a collection of prose, titled "La farfalla di Dinard", published in December 1956.

Tale collection is divided into four sections, and "Il pipistrello" is located in the third one.

I do not have that work by Montale, but in a very common library I think it should be easily recoverable to perform verifications and confirm it definitively

Meanwhile on wiki I found this

http://it.wikipedia....Arianna/Sandbox

Yeah, Frank 😉