The main aim of the Music Training course is to develop students' creativity and musicality, as well as their ability to be musically available to meet the demands of today's choreographic landscape. It enriches performer training by providing the theoretical and practical musical tools needed by today's dancers. The course is taken by undergraduate students in DNSP1, DNSP2 and DNSP3. It enables them to build up as broad a musical culture as possible and to develop a critical eye for the relationship between dance and music. The teaching is the same for both classical and contemporary courses, and creates links between the two disciplines.

This course teaches the fundamentals of jazz writing and harmony. Through listening, students learn to analyse an extract or a work, and grasp the tools specific to jazz aesthetics and songs (numbers, form, harmony, voicings, etc.). By the end of the course, they will have mastered the practical aspects of composition, arranging and orchestration. Introduced to the various techniques of arranging, the specific languages of improvisation and, more broadly, writing for various small ensembles, students are invited to apply this knowledge to the production of original pieces composed, arranged and orchestrated for a redefined instrumentation.

Taking as its subject the works of two leading classical, romantic and ^{twentieth-century} composers, this option combines group and individual tuition with sessions in the form of a laboratory to introduce students to orchestration.

During this year-long course, the pieces produced are played by an orchestra (woodwinds in pairs) of 34 to 37 musicians.

Focusing on works by composers from the late ^19th to ^20th century repertoire, this class combines group and individual lessons with laboratory sessions with an orchestra in twos and threes, with a view to acquiring the keys to orchestration in all its forms.

This class is open only to students who hold the Certificate of Initiation in Orchestration, subject to the following conditions:

• they must have obtained a very good or good grade in the introductory orchestration certificate
• have submitted a reasoned application for admission to the department.

Applications will be assessed at the end of the certificate examinations. The applicant's attendance, results and motivation will be taken into account, as will the teachers' assessments.

The professors teaching this discipline are Guillaume Connesson, Marc-André Dalbavie and Anthony Girard.