Licence Musicologie - Parcours Musique et sciences de la musique

The musicology degree provides solid theoretical and practical training in a comprehensive course of general musical and musicological education. The syllabus is based on the history and analysis of learned and popular music, from the Middle Ages to the present day; but it also gives pride of place to teaching in the humanities and social sciences, technical teaching and practical music teaching.

The Music and Music Sciences programme is open to all students interested in the theory and practice of music, and wishing to acquire or deepen their knowledge of musicology. Because of the density of the training, a real motivation for university studies is necessary to succeed.

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Course open to all students with a bachelor's degree or equivalent diploma.

     - Recent motivation for music and musicological studies at university

- Knowledge of musical language and (modest) practice of an instrument

- Good workmanship 

This pathway is spread over six semesters in a progressive manner; it offers a common core of teaching, in an open generalist approach, while aiming for a progressive colouring according to the students' ét projects. This pathway is organised each semester into three blocks of knowledge and skills.

The course makes the theory-practice pedagogical axis the main vector of teaching now placed under the guidance of the skills-based approach. It is organised according to the following principles:

-             Reinforce students'involvement in their training by allowing them to choose a certain number of'optional courses, but also by dedicating weeks to collective practice in project-based teaching and professional development.

-               Offer a broad range of disciplinary teaching to enable students to build their career path through a reasoned choice of courses.

-              Organise teaching in a foreign language that is integrated into the course to give it full coherence.

The Musicology degree offers students from a variety of musical backgrounds the opportunity to extend and deepen their skills through a contemporary musicological approach tailored to their profile and professional goals. The link between the theory and practice of music is at the heart of the training: workshops in musical practice and creation, history, analysis and musical writing, human sciences.

The musicology degree provides a solid theoretical and practical training in the following fields:

·       From the history and analysis of learned and popular music, from the Middle Ages à the contemporary and current période.

·        From musical practice and performance : collective musical practice, choir, chamber music, workshops in traditional music, improvised music, médiévales, électroacoustics.

·       From the conception, organisation and réalisation of musical events.

·        Music notation, transcription and composition techniques.

·       Computer-assisted music, sound recording and sound reinforcement techniques.

·       De l'esthétique de la musique : philosophie et esthétique compareacute;e, interprétation.

·        Sciences of musical language : sémiology and sémiotics, rétorics, herméneutics of music, stylistics.

·        Human sciences interacting with the musical fact : sociology of music, history of ideas, psychology of music, musical anthropology, music pedagogy.

The aim is for students, depending on their initial profile, to acquire, extend and deepen musical, cross-disciplinary and pre-professional skills that will enable them to:

• To deal with the main problems of the musical and musicological field by using appropriate theoretical tools, methods and techniques;
• Develop a career plan and identify training pathways that will enable access to it;
• To develop autonomy in work and analysis, a capacity for involvement in collective projects, a capacity for critical distance and fluent communication, in French and in a foreign language.

At the end of their training, students will have developed the following skills:

• Situating a musical œuvre
• Select a musical work (style, structure...) from the list, note it down, comment on it.
• Understand a musical score: describe it, identify its structuring elements.
• Choose and use an appropriate method for the study (analysis, description, commentary...) of a piece of music played or read.
• Use specific vocabulary to study a musical work écoute or on score.
• Produce an argumentative discourse on a musical phenomenon, including a multidisciplinary approach.
• Represent current musical and musicological issues in order to produce a critical analysis.
• Prepare and perform an instrumental work, and evaluate their performance.
• Compose a musical arrangement, harmonization, instrumental or vocal piece
• Build a documentary corpus.
• Cite the various cultural and musical structures in an area; identify the professionals associated with them.
• Situate your role and mission within an organisation in order to adapt and take initiatives.
• Express your point of view both orally and in writing, in French and in a foreign language.

Professional guidance is an important part of the programme. In addition to dedicated teaching, every second and third semester of the year, a week is dedicated to a work placement to observe the professional environment.

The training takes place in the classroom, with an approach designed to encourage educational interaction: blended teaching, practical workshops, educational outings and tutored projects.

The online learning platform (digital workspace) is also used to provide students with additional training: course materials, additional exercises and self-assessment exercises; this learning method using digital media will also make it possible to strengthen educational interaction through the use of forums, blogs or wikis.

Continuing education trainees benefit from specific cross-disciplinary modules offered by the component, focusing in particular on links with the socio-economic world, professionalisation, documentary research, use of the resources available at the university, development of knowledge and skills, and project development.

• K2105 Enseignement artistique (fr)
• K2106 Enseignement des écoles (fr)
• K2107 Enseignement général du second degré (fr)
• K2108 Enseignement supérieur (fr)
• L1202 Musique et chant (fr)
• G1202 Animation d'activités culturelles ou ludiques (fr)
• K1202 Éducation de jeunes enfants (fr)

• 133F Musique application à une technologie (fr)
• 133G Connaissances artistiques appliquées à la documentation (fr)
• 333T Education et transfert de connaissances (fr)

The Music and Music Sciences pathway, which may be complemented by university (master's) or professional training, may enable students to gain access to fields related to musical practice and live performance, musical animation, music publishing and the music press (criticism); animation musicale, aux métiers de lédition musicale et la presse musicale (critique), aux métiers de la diffusion (industrie du disque), aux métiers de lédiation culturelle, aux métiers de la recherche en musicologie, aux métiers de l'enseignement de la musique.

Some jobs and métiers held by former graduate students:

• Musician,
• Composer,
• Musicologist,
• Sound engineer,
• Journalist,
• Radio host,
• College and high school teacher,
• Territorial art education teacher,
• Interventional musician at school,
• Musical animator,
• Production or broadcast manager,
• Artistic director of cultural structures and/or events,
• Director or project manager for music in local authorities

The student has a regular teacher, the Director of Studies. They benefit from regular and individualised monitoring, supported by courses on the methodology of university work adapted to their discipline.

The back-to-school days provide an introduction to the course of study, the University's services, optional courses, a visit to the University Library and an introduction to the Service Commun de Documentation (SCD).

For students entering the course after authorisation from the Pédagogical Commission, a refresher course may be offered.

In the first year, the course offers a tutorial to bring students up to standard in technical subjects such as solfège, harmony and the theory of tonal music. The aim is to enable all students, including those with no prerequisites, to acquire the fundamentals of these subjects. Reaction techniques are also closely monitored

In the first year of the Bachelor's degree, the courses are designed to encourage students to enter higher education more quickly, and to enable them to re-orientate their studies. This first year of the bachelor's degree therefore places the emphasis on teaching the methodology of academic work in order to build students' initial level of academic skills that are disciplinary, but also cross-disciplinary and pre-professional.

The second year of the Musicology degree focuses on disciplinary teaching. It is also the time, within the framework of a specific teaching unit, to define one's career and study plans. Students will also follow a cross-disciplinary course that will provide training in digital and information skills

The third year enables students to deepen their knowledge and skills in both subject areas and cross-disciplinary areas and to refine their professional or further study plans.

From the second year onwards, students follow a course dedicated to guidance and career planning. This is compulsory teaching every semester in the form of tutorials and is accompanied by a work placement to observe the professional environment.

The aim of this course is to support students in their career development. The aim is to provide general information and methodological content for finding information in order to enable students to enrich their career prospects and gradually develop their choices

The course develops 3 specific types of international partnership agreements:

1.       Erasmus Agreement; Partner institutions: University of Hildesheim (Germany), 2 semesters – 1 student; University of Edinburgh (UK) (2 semesters – 1, soon 2 students)

2.       Accord bilatéral (2007 renouvelé en 2014) ; établissement partenaire : Université Laval, Québec (Canada) – (2 semesters – 3 étudiants)

3.       CREPUQ – Conseil des universités du Québec + université d'Ottawa (Canada) ; Partner institutions: université de Montréal, université de Sherbrooke, université d'Ottawa. Number of students varies according to demand (from 1 to 4 possible)

Other partnership projects are currently being studied.

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