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.