Following on from the teaching of Florence Badol-Bertrand, this course offers an exploration of the tools used to write about music, edit scores, initiate dramaturgical reflection or carry out mediation activities (reviews, communication, critical apparatus, programme notes, etc.). Like a workshop, many of the projects are carried out in a real or simulated professional environment, which creates the conditions for discovering and appropriating research and mediation approaches. They also include an introduction to the sociology of classical music audiences, cultural institutions and public cultural policies.

Like a reading room, this course takes students through the history of ideas in order to put the discursive legacies of musicology into historical and critical perspective. Students analyse a wide range of texts, individually and collectively, as a window onto the diversity of theoretical fields of research in musicology, from the founding narratives of the canon to gender or postcolonial studies, via traditional music, performance studies or listening studies.