Guitar

Study of works from the ^16th century to the present day.

Deepening of instrumental technique and fingering methodology.

Development of autonomy in a broader approach to a work (sources, historical and aesthetic contexts, research and analysis of various interpretations, etc.).

Personal transcriptions.

Introduction to reading tablatures for lute, guitar and vihuela.

^1st YEAR HIGH SCHOOL

^1st year examination

Duration: 30 minutes maximum

1. a compulsory work, posted two months before the exam ;
2. a ^{sixteenth-century} work for vihuela, guitar or Renaissance lute, to be chosen by arrangement with the teacher (5 minutes maximum) ;
3. an ^{eighteenth-century} work of your choice, in agreement with the teacher (10 minutes maximum) ;
4. a work of your choice from the 20th^{- 21st} centuries composed after 1980, in agreement with the teacher (10 minutes maximum).

Work 3 or 4 must be technical in nature.

Except in exceptional circumstances, the programme must be performed from memory.

Year² exam

Duration: 30 minutes maximum

1. a ^{seventeenth-century} work for lute or baroque guitar of the candidate's choice, in agreement with the teacher (5 minutes maximum) ;
2. a ^{nineteenth-century} work of your choice, in agreement with the teacher (10 minutes maximum);
3. a compulsory work (for technical purposes); posted two months before the examination (5 minutes maximum) ;
4. a concerto of the candidate's choice, in agreement with the teacher.

Except in exceptional circumstances, the programme must be performed from memory. The jury reserves the right to listen to all or part of the concerto.

DNSPM final examination

Public recital

Duration: 30 minutes maximum

1. one compulsory work, posted two months before the examination ;
2. one compulsory work, posted in October ;
3. a programme of your choice, in agreement with the teacher, comprising works from different periods and including a work using contemporary modes of playing.

Except in exceptional circumstances, the programme must be performed from memory.

The^1st cycle Advanced Certificate in Guitar is awarded to students who have passed the DNSPM final examination.

The certificate grade is that awarded by the jury at the end of the DNSPM final examination.

^2nd higher cycle

^1st year recital

Non-public recital

Duration: 45 minutes maximum

1. a work by Johann Sebastian Bach (from one of the Sonatas and Partitas for violin, one of the Suites for solo cello or the harpsichord repertoire) ;
2. a compulsory work, posted six weeks before the examination ;
3. a programme of your choice, in agreement with the teacher;
4. an oral commentary by the jury after deliberation.

^2nd year recital

Public recital

Duration: 50 minutes maximum

Free program

The Guitar Prize is awarded to the student who obtains an award in each of the two^2nd year recitals.

The Guitar Prize commendation is the commendation awarded by the jury for the free recital in the^2nd year of the^2nd cycle.

Throughout the course