A musical journey through 17th Century France

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Free Online Course: A musical journey through 17th Century France provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 9 weeks long, 1-2 hours a week. The course is taught in French and is free of charge. A musical journey through 17th Century France is taught by Théodora Psychoyou, Sebastien Daucé and Achille Davy-Rigaux.

Overview
  • The MOOC is hosted by Sébastien Daucé, musical director of Correspondances and Saskia Deville, who hosts the Saturday morning show on France Musique public radio channel. The shooting took place mainly in the Louvre Museum rooms, and also places where the music resounded like the Palace of Versailles or Port-Royal Abbey!

    Drafting of the scientifical content has been entrusted to two musicologists of Sorbonne University: Achille Davy-Rigaux (Senior Researcher CNRS, IReMus) et Theodora Psychoyou (Senior Lecturer at Sorbonne University Faculty of Arts and Humanities, IReMus) in collaboration with pedagogical engineers of the Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne-Université: Christèle Goulevant and Guillaume Prost.

    The shooting took place mainly in the Louvre Museum rooms, and also places where music resounded: the Palace of Versailles, Port-Royal Abbey…

    This is a seven-stage journey, with no pre-requisite - one episode a week for seven weeks beginning (date)

    In addition to the course videos, a corpus of resources including interactive exercises, a lexicon, musical extracts, concert recordings, archive images, interviews with specialists, a pedagogical infographic, a discussion forum with a moderator who answers questions, are available to the learner.

    This MOOC is a coproduction :

    Ensemble Correspondances

    CCR d’Ambronay

    Musée du Louvre

    IReMus

    Sorbonne Université

    With the support of :

    Fondation Orange

    Fondation Sorbonne Université

    Communauté de communes de la Plaine de l’Ain