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✦Niveau 3 · Mastery· ≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Composition, Analysis and Mastery

16 lessons to reach mastery — musical form, orchestration, analysis of great composers, composition in their styles and deep structural analysis, plus the licence/DNSPM track: figured bass, Renaissance counterpoint, listening commentary, performer's analysis, score reading and harmonic dictation methodology.

Maîtrise · 27≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Deep Functional Analysis

Tonal hierarchies, harmonic prolongation, Schenkerian reduction — learning to see the deep structure of a work beyond its surface chords.

SchenkerAnalyseUrsatz

Maîtrise · 28≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Musical Forms in Depth

Binary, ternary, rondo, sonata form — anatomy of the great musical architectures with guided analysis of Mozart, Bach and Beethoven.

Forme sonateAnalyseBeethoven

Maîtrise · 29≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Comparative Repertoire Analysis

Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist — 5 historical periods, one melody harmonized 5 ways to reveal the evolution of musical language.

DebussyÉvolutionStyles

Maîtrise · 17≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Musical Phrase and Form

Motive, 4-step development, repetition techniques, antecedent-consequent period and large musical forms.

PhraseFormeAnalyse

Maîtrise · 18≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Motivic Development

The 5 elements of motive, the paradox of repetition, and the 4 families of techniques — from harmony to rhythm.

MotifDéveloppementBeethoven

Maîtrise · 19≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Introduction to Orchestration

The 4 instrument families, their ranges and roles — doublings, balance, registers and SATB distribution in the orchestra.

OrchestreTimbresRavel

Maîtrise · 20≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Analysis of Classical Composers

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov — harmonic signatures.

AnalyseCompositeursHistoire

Maîtrise · 21≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Analysis of Modern Composers

Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Satie, Beatles, Radiohead, Morricone — from Impressionism to rock.

ModerneContemporainImpressionnisme

Maîtrise · 22≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Advanced Reharmonization

Transform a progression while preserving the melody — diatonic and tritone substitutions, modal borrowing, parallel harmonization.

RéharmonisationSubstitutionJazz

Maîtrise · 23≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Composing in the Style of the Masters

Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Jazz, Rock — identify and reproduce the harmonic signatures of the great composers.

StyleCompositionAnalyse

Maîtrise · 42≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Keyboard Harmonization and Figured Bass

Read and realize a Baroque continuo: figures, inversions, cadential six-four, suspensions and sequences — in four parts and at the keyboard.

Basse chiffréeContinuoRéalisation

Maîtrise · 43≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Renaissance Modal Counterpoint

The Palestrina style (prima pratica): church modes, the melodic line, two-voice counterpoint, strict dissonance (suspensions, nota cambiata) and modal cadences.

ContrepointPalestrinaModal

Maîtrise · 45≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Listening Commentary Methodology

The complete method of the exam — parameter grid, stylistic markers, forms by ear, plan and vocabulary — plus the harmonic gymnasium: cadences, modes, modulations, harmonic rhythm, textures.

Commentaire d'écouteStylesMéthodologie

Maîtrise · 46≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Analysing a Piece You Are Going to Play

Analysis in the service of interpretation — formal map, harmonic skeleton, phrasing plan, voice hierarchy — and the interpretation worksheet on your own repertoire, imported into the analyser. First course of the DNSPM performer track.

InterprétationDNSPMAnalyse

Maîtrise · 47≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Orchestration and Score Reading

Reading a full score: page architecture, C clefs, transposing instruments (with written/sounding listening), verticality of a tutti, piano reduction and orchestral balance. Second course of the DNSPM track.

OrchestrationTranspositionDNSPM

Maîtrise · 48≈ Bachelor 3 · DNSPM

Harmonic Dictation Methodology

Bass first, cadence before chords, inversions and the falling seventh, the discipline of the 6 listenings — the methodological companion to the /releve tool. Last course of the DNSPM track and of the catalogue.

RelevéOreilleDNSPM