Counterpoint

The aim of learning to write is to train the ear, acquire a knowledge of styles and master the various techniques of musical rhetoric.
Study of polyphonic vocal writing. Authors on the programme: Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn, alternating from one year to the next;
Study of contrapuntal forms of instrumental writing (variations, chaconne, passacaglia, etc.).

Be enrolled in the advanced writing cycle.

The entrance examination is common to all the 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 one or other 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 they have not interrupted their studies for more than one school year.

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

Assessment of all work by a jury at the end of the year

1 year (^2nd year possible on the advice of the teacher and subject to availability).