Baroque cello - 1er Cycle
Information
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Name
Baroque cello
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Cycle
1st Cycle
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Course's number of years
3 years
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Maximum duration
3 years
Students in the first and second years of the1st cycle who feel that they can complete the DNSPM at the end of the current academic year may sit the DNSPM final exam at the end of the first or second year instead of the final exam; if they fail the exam and/or are unable to validate all the disciplines attached to the DNSPM, they must continue their studies in the next year of the1st cycle and sit the DNSPM final exam again.
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ECTS
180
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Delivered diploma
National Higher Professional Diploma for Musicians (DNSPM)
The mention (Très bien, Bien or Assez bien) qualifying the DNSPM is that awarded by the jury at the end of the DNSPM final examination.
The Baroque Cello DNSPM is also awarded to students who did not obtain a distinction in the DNSPM final examination but whose results in the first and second year examinations so permit, in accordance with the procedures described in Title I - article 5 of the study regulations.
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Course objectives and content
Advanced training for instrumentalists :
- development of artistic sensitivity and individual and collective technical mastery ;
- broad cultural training in both practical and theoretical fields (complementary disciplines);
- awareness of the professional context.
The Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Musicien (DNSPM) in baroque cello is awarded to students who have obtained all of the following distinctions:
The 1st cycle baroque cello certificate
124 A certificate or attestation in each of the following compulsory complementary disciplines:
-Chamber music
6
- orchestra
6
- Treatise study A
2
- Musical training
8
- Musical analysis
8
- History of music (introduction)
2
- Sight-reading
8
- Chords and temperaments (excluding harpsichord and fortepiano)
2
- Baroque dance
2
- Modern language (or French as a foreign language)
3 - Practical aspects of the profession 1 and 2
1
- Professional situations
4
A certificate or attestation in an optional complementary discipline 4
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French language certificate
B1
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Bachelor's degree
A partnership between the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris and Sorbonne-Université enables Conservatoire students who so wish, and who are admitted to the 1st cycle, to obtain, together with the Conservatoire's 1st cycle diploma, and subject to fulfilling the conditions for enrolment at the university, the Bachelor degree of Music and Musicology from Sorbonne-Université, including the Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Musicien (DNSPM) from the CNSMDP, and validation at the university of four 26-hour courses, spread over four semesters, chosen from the "Domaines musicologiques" teaching units.
Students are free to choose at which stage of their studies at the Conservatoire (1st or 2nd cycle) they wish to begin this university course.
Registration and payment of university fees are required to follow the courses. -
Number of complementary disciplines to validate
1
Disciplines
Entrance exam
Baroque cello (1st cycle)
Opening date for registration : 10 October 2024
Closing date for registration : 15 November 2024
Exam dates : répétitions et concours du 22 février au 1er mars 2025
Exam open only for a place on the waiting list this year
Eligibility:
- a compulsory work (to be posted on 10 December 2024)
- a work of your choice with basso continuo from the 18th-century Italian repertoire (approximately 7 minutes).
Admission:
- one compulsory work with basso continuo (posted on 10 January 2025)
- two compulsory extracts from a suite for solo cello by J.S. Bach; (advertised on 10 January 2025)
- a sight reading
The CNSMDP will provide an accompanist for the admission test.
N.B.: Candidates who are successful in the competition for admission to the1st cycle supérieur and who are not nationals of French-speaking countries must present, before 30 June preceding their first enrolment at the Conservatoire, a certificate issued by a body approved by the French government attesting to a level of French at least equal to B1 on the Council of Europe's scale of common reference levels.
Maximum age : 28