The preparatory year provides students with a basic knowledge in musicology and opens them up to the world of music, culture and the creation of contemporary music to help them sucessfully follow the Master [60] in History of Art and Archaeology: Musicology or the Master [120] in History of Art and Archaeology: Musicology.

The programme focuses both on the history of music and on contemporary issues such as musical language, sociology, analysis and aesthetics. At the end of the training, students will have :

• developed an understanding of today's world of music ;
• acquired theoretical knowledge and methodologies in classical musicology.