“FOLK SINGING” DEPARTMENT

Performance Requirements

Specialty requirements:

  1. Folk song (with komuz accompaniment)

  2. Author’s song (with piano accompaniment)

Colloquium:

  • Accurate knowledge of the author and content of the performed works

  • Ability to distinguish between folk and author’s works

  • Knowledge of the biography and creative path of famous singers of the older generation

  • Demonstration of performing skills

Entrance Requirements for Music-Theoretical Disciplines

Solfeggio (oral):

  • Singing scales in keys with 1 to 5 accidentals: two types of major and three types of minor, all types of triads (with inversions and resolutions), as well as harmonic progressions including up to six chords

  • Sight-singing a monophonic melody (in major or minor, with chromatic/altered steps, possible modulations to related keys, in simple meters, with various rhythmic difficulties)

Harmony (oral):

  • Performing tasks at the piano: playing modulations to closely related keys in the form of a period (an initial harmonic progression may be given to the applicant)

  • Playing tonal and modulating sequences (2–4 chords)

  • Harmonic analysis at sight of works in various styles. The harmonic language should not exceed the following level of complexity: L. Beethoven — sonatas; P.I. Tchaikovsky — “The Seasons”; M.I. Glinka, P.I. Tchaikovsky, S.V. Rachmaninoff

  • Answering questions on the harmony course as related to the above tasks

Music Theory for Applicants (written and oral):

  • Identification of given characteristic intervals and their resolutions in keys with up to two accidentals

  • Construction of intervals (diatonic and chromatic) from a given note and determining them in the key

  • Construction of chords (triads, including augmented and diminished, D7 with inversions and resolutions)

  • Transposition of monophonic melodies

  • Determining the key of a small musical example

 

DEPARTMENT OF FOLK SINGING

  • Zh. M. Israilov — Head of Department, Associate Professor
  • T. N. Asanaliev — Associate Professor, Honored Artist of the Kyrgyz Republic
  • G. B. Alisherova — Senior Lecturer
  • E. S. Omurov — Senior Lecturer
  • Zh. A. Koichumanov — Senior Lecturer
  • B. Zhakypov — Senior Lecturer
  • K. Zh. Duishonbiev — Senior Lecturer
  • S. Toktakhunova — Professor, People’s Artist of the USSR
  • U. Polotov — Professor, People’s Artist of the Kyrgyz Republic
  • Erkaliev Ulukbek — Lecturer
  • A. A. Daulova — Concertmaster
  • M. Zh. Zhunushev — Concertmaster
  • R. A. Shakirov — Concertmaster

The department has existed since the opening of the Conservatory. Here work outstanding teachers and performers of Kyrgyz traditional music, with special attention given to training young professional personnel. One of the key areas of the department is the preservation and support of authentic Kyrgyz traditional singing.