How does the history of French humanist and transdisciplinary education serve the training of today's musician/musicologist?

In this talk, Elizabeth Gonçalves will ask how membership in the European Higher Education Area can help French conservatoires and universities to offer future musician-musicologists the most authentic and effective training possible. I will present and compare the fifteen Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD models for simultaneous graduation as musician-performer and musicology researcher proposed by the Université Paris-Sorbonne, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Conservatoire de Versailles, the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, and the Université de Versailles. Which strategies have been implemented to articulate research and practice within a single course? What place and function do languages, literature, history, and sociology have, and how are these courses organized to optimize careers and professional projects? How do institutions and teaching teams support students, and what links are made with international institutions, both from a theoretical and methodological point of view? What are the future career paths that emerge from such programmess? And does the balance between research and practice enable musicians to meet the new challenges they face?