Écriture - 1er Cycle

Information

  • Cycle

    1st Cycle

  • Course's number of years

    3 years

  • ECTS

    180

  • 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.   

Disciplines

  • Harmonie (Discipline principale - 79 ECTS)

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  • Contrepoint (Discipline principale - 79 ECTS)

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  • Fugue et formes (Discipline principale - 79 ECTS)

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  • Polyphonie XVème - XVIIème siècles (Discipline principale - 79 ECTS)

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  • Ecriture XXe et XXIe siècles (Discipline principale - 79 ECTS)

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  • Analyse musicale B (Discipline complémentaire imposée - 8 ECTS)

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  • Parcours Pro A - Médiation (ex-APM2/Publics) (Discipline complémentaire imposée - 0 ECTS)

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  • Parcours Pro A - Santé et prévention (ex-APM1) (Discipline complémentaire imposée - 0 ECTS)

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  • Parcours Pro A - Carrières et métiers (Discipline complémentaire imposée - 0 ECTS)

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  • Langue vivante (Discipline complémentaire imposée - 3 ECTS)

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  • Analyse théorique et appliquée (Discipline complémentaire imposée - 0 ECTS)

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  • Mise en situation professionnelle - 1er cycle (Discipline complémentaire imposée - 4 ECTS)

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  • Arrangement (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Atelier analyse et interprétation (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Contrepoint médiéval (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Harmonisation au clavier A (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Harmonisation au clavier B (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Histoire de la musique du MA et de la Renaissance (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Histoire de la musique B (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Improvisation au piano (initiation) (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Initiation à la direction d'orchestre A et B (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Jazz (Initiation) (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Son (Initiation) (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Lecture sur les sources (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Musique pour l'image (initiation) (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Organologie : approche pluridisciplinaire de l'instrument de musique (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Participation à un projet de recherche (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Polyphonies improvisées (Discipline optionnelle - 6 ECTS)

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  • Analyse musicale A (Discipline optionnelle - 0 ECTS)

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Entrance exam

Writing (higher cycle)

Opening date for registration :  04 January 2027

Description :

Annales des concours | Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (conservatoiredeparis.fr)

 

The entrance examination is common to all writing classes: Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue and Forms, 15th - 17th century Polyphony, 20th- 21st century Writing.

Candidates who are successful in the writing entrance examination may subsequently enrol in any of these disciplines without having to sit the tests again (or pay a new enrolment fee), without having to meet the age limit, and provided that they have not interrupted their studies for more than one school year.

Subject to the availability of places, it is possible to take several classes at the same time.

 

The introductory B writing exam is the same as the entrance exam for the advanced writing cycle. Passing this examination with distinction enables entry to the advanced writing cycle.

 

1) Mise en loge n°1 of 8 hours: given song (string quartet) in classical or romantic style;

2) Mise en loge n°2 of 12 hours

  • choral (for 4 mixed voices, in the old keys), in the style of Bach ;
  • and bass fugue (for 4 mixed voices, in the old keys) in the Baroque style.

Judging at the end of May, beginning of June.

 

Reminder: Candidates who are successful in the competition for entry to the higher cycle 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 : 27