Traditional Music

Dombyra

1. Performance of the program (40-45 minutes):
   • 8 kuis of various art-performing schools;
   • 2 large-scale various on style and genre pieces accompanied by a piano (one of the pieces has to be written especially for an instrument).
2. Defense of a Dissertation.
3. Colloquium.

Dombyra prima

1. Performance of the program (40-45 minutes):
   • large-scale works (concerto: the 1st or the 2d and the 3d movements, sonata, suite);
   • works by Western composers (Western European, Russian, Soviet);
   • 2 works of Kazakhstani composers;
   • cantilena piece with the performance of a tremolo;
   • virtuoso piece for a 3-stringed dombyra (works of Yu.Shishakova, A. Tsygankova, V. Kruglova, A. Lapteva, etc.).
2. Defense of a Dissertation.
3. Colloquium.

Sherter

1. Performance of the program
   • one work by Kazakhstani composers;
   • one work by foreign composers;
   • one work by Russian composers;
   • large-scale concerto;
   • national kui;
   • one kui of Arkinsky, Karatau, Altay-Tarbagatay or Zhetisuysky schools.
2. Defense of a Dissertation.
3. Colloquium.

Kyl kobyz

1. Performance of the program (40 - 45 minutes):
   • large-scale work (concertos, sonatas);
   • pieces by foreign composers;
   • folk kuis and kuis written by composers specifically for kyl kobyz (at least 4 - 5 types).
2. Defense of a Dissertation.

Kobyz prima

1. Performance of the program (40 - 45 minutes):
   • large-scale piece (part of the concerto, sonata, cycle composition);
   • works by foreign composers;
   • three works by composers of Kazakhstan.
2. Defense of a Dissertation.

Folk singing

1. Performance of the program (40 - 45 minutes):
   • folk song;
   • song by folk composer;
   • song by contemporary composer;
   • 3 songs from other performing schools.
2. Defense of a Dissertation.

Zhyrshy

• folk song;
• songs by folk composers;
• songs by contemporary composers;
• terme, tolgau;
• excerpts from dastans or aitys.

1. Defense of a Dissertation.

Bayan, accordion

1. Performance of the program (40 - 45 minutes):
   • polyphonic composition;
   • large scale music works;
   • virtuoso piece;
   • works by contemporary Kazakhstani composers;
   • kui sound processing by Kazakh folk composer;
   • the product of choice.
2. Defense of a Dissertation.

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