Organology: a multidisciplinary approach to the musical instrument

This discipline is based on the examination of musical instruments, their repertoire, iconographic sources and written sources (treaties, patents, commercial administrative archives, press, programmes, correspondence, etc.).

By addressing these different aspects, the organology course places musical instruments in the context of the history of music, social and cultural history and the history of techniques. The course also makes occasional use of other disciplines such as acoustics and cognitive sciences.

This course is open to all Conservatoire students. It is one of the complementary disciplines required for the^2nd cycle advanced musicology diploma, which confers a master's degree (see the advanced musicology cycle study programme).

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

Written: course question or document analysis (2 hours)

FINAL EXAMINATION

- Oral: presentation on a course question and a document analysis chosen by lottery (30 minutes including 10 minutes for questions from the jury; one hour in the loggia).

1 year (2 hours weekly)