Special Regulations

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Ref: 14-34_Special_Regulations

[1] DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MUSIC

[2] 1. The Exercise for the Degree of Bachelor of Music

[3] (a) The Exercise shall consist of a portfolio of three or more original musical compositions of varied character, lasting in total at least thirty minutes. Music for any combination of three or more of the categories specified below will be acceptable, provided that the portfolio includes some purely instrumental music and some vocal music with words. Candidates may also submit recordings of any of their works, and shall submit recordings of electro-acoustic compositions and of any pieces whose ordering or content is not fixed by the notation. The categories are (i) music for one or two instruments, or instrument and voice; (ii) music for choral or solo vocal ensemble, accompanied or unaccompanied; (iii) music for chamber ensemble, with or without voice or voices; (iv) music for larger forces than the above; (v) music involving electro-acoustic composition, accompanied by a commentary describing the technical procedures.
[4] (b) A viva-voce examination may be held unless candidates are individually dispensed by the examiners.

[5] 2. General Regulations about the Exercise

[6] (a) The score of each work must be written out so as to accord with the standards and methods that a professional performer, copyist, or publisher would expect, with rehearsal letters and/or regular bar-numbering. The pages should be numbered consecutively throughout the portfolio.
[7] (b) The Exercise must be accompanied by a declaration on a prescribed form, which must be obtained beforehand by application to the Head of Examinations and Assessment, Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford. It must be sent in by the Friday in Trinity Term in the fifth week.

[8] Form of Declaration

I,................................................................................................................................. hereby declare that these compositions are entirely my own unaided work and that no part of them has been presented for examination on any previous occasion.

Signed..................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................... College, in the presence of ..........................................................................................................

Witnesses'..........................................................................................................

names and

addresses..........................................................................................................

in full...........................................................................................................

Date .........................................................................................................................

The Exercise must show the private address as well as the name and college of the composer.

It must be strongly bound and paged, and lettered (with clearly stamped lettering) up the spine with title and composer's name, and also on the outside cover with title, name, and college, and the words ‘B.Mus. Exercise’.

Any electronic tape submitted in addition to the Exercise must be in a box on which the title, the composer's name and college, and the words ‘B.Mus. Exercise’ are again clearly shown.

[9] DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MUSIC

[10] A candidate is required to submit for approval by the board of the faculty a major musical work or works of his own composition and of outstanding merit. Two copies of each work must be submitted

[11] Evidence submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Music

[12] The work or works submitted must show the private address as well as the name and college of the composer. The work or works must be strongly bound and paged, and lettered (with clearly stamped lettering) up the spine with title and composer's name, and also on the outside cover with title, name, and college, and the degree for which it was composed.