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Scheme Introduction
"Creative Sounds and Creative Music" Music Composition Animateur Pilot Scheme is a new arts education programme that sends distinguished Hong Kong composers to schools to work with students participating in a course covering music appreciation and music creativity, and through which the students would be able to foster self-confidence in expression, communication, performance and creativity.
The programme focuses on providing basic composition training while introducing interesting music of contemporary and classical composers. It aims to cultivate students' abilities to appreciate and discover music and sounds that they may or may not encounter in their everyday life, and to encourage them to create new acoustic sounds and compose new music with standard musical instruments. In other words, it is not a composition course on pop-song writing, but one that encourages students to experience and invent new ideas freely. Activities will include 2 types of training workshops (in music appreciation and sounds/music composition), intensive sounds and music composition, rehearsals and auditioning and in-school concert. On completion of the course, students will take part in the finale concert and share with their audience what they have learned throughout the year.
The Scheme is implemented in 2 primary schools and 2 secondary schools.
Programme Content
Schools participating in the programme will be grouped under 2 categories: primary and secondary schools.
Programme Theme
Students are encouraged to discover their hidden talent by focusing firstly on the subject of creative sound design rather than complicated topics like harmony and counterpoint. With the programme theme, "Creative Sounds and Creative Music", students will explore various kinds of creative sounds on voices, instruments, percussion and everyday objects, and will arrange these sounds in an organized manner in musical contexts. This will naturally lead to the studies of rhythm, notation and form. The next musical element to manage will be pitch organization which deals with melodic writing, voice leading, etc.. Instead of continuing the studies with standard song writing in classical or popular styles, students will then be encouraged to compose more creative types of music with, for example, irregular phrasing, surprising melodies, dissonant chords, arrhythmic patterns, extended instrumental techniques, etc..
September to October, 2008
Phase 1: Music Appreciation Workshop
The Music Appreciation Workshop will include 5 sessions. Students will be introduced to audio-visual recordings of chamber, orchestral, vocal, electronic, and theatre music of various styles. They are also given an opportunity to attend a live concert of contemporary music "Musicarama 2008" at Hong Kong City Hall on 24 October 2008.
November 2008 to March, 2009
Phase 2: Composition Training Workshop
Composition Training Workshop will include 10 sessions. Students will be taught the standard composition techniques and the content includes sound design, rhythm, extended instrumental techniques, melodic writing, simple harmonization, notation, phrasing, form, texture, etc..
April to May, 2009
Phase 3: Intensive Sounds and Music Composition
Intensive Sounds and Music Composition will include 5 sessions. Students will spend 2 months finishing the first draft of their individual compositions under the supervision of distinguished composers/instructors.
June to July, 2009
Phase 4: Rehearsals and In-school Concert
There will be 5-session rehearsals and 1 in-school concert. Students are provided with the chance to try out their pieces. A few professional musicians will demonstrate and take part in the rehearsals of the student compositions together with the students themselves who shall also act as the performers. Students will be ready for a school concert in the final session. Through a formal audition exercise, a panel of adjudicators will study all the final compositions and select the best pieces among the four participating schools for the finale concert.
Phase 5: Finale Concert
24.7.2009 (Fri) 7:30pm
Theatre, Sheung Wan Civic Centre
(5/F Sheung Wan Muncipal Services Building, 345 Queen's Road Central)
Tickets: $40
The scheme encourages students to learn different kinds of music through the appreciation of music and sounds, and by which the students would be able to foster their creativity. Students are also encouraged to finish their individual compositions under the supervision of distinguished composers. 26 pieces of the outstanding compositions selected among the 4 participating schools will be performed by profession of musicians in the finale concert at the Theatre, Sheung Wan Civic Centre.
Participating Schools (in alphabetical order)
C&W District St. Anthony’s School
Holy Angels Canossian School
Shatin Pui Ying College
Wah Yan College, Kowloon
Programme Length
The programme is about 1 hour 30 minutes without intermission.
Ticketing and Concession
Tickets available from June 11 onwards at all URBTIX outlets
Half-price tickets are available for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients. Tickets for CSSA recipients are available on a first-come-first-served basis. Concessionary ticket holders must produce evidence of their identity or age upon admission.
Enquiries
Programme Enquiries: 2268 7321 / 2722 1650 (RhapsoArts Management Ltd.)
Ticketing Enquiries & Reservations: 2734 9009
Credit Card Telephone Booking: 2111 5999
Internet Booking: www.urbtix.hk
Audiences are strongly advised to arrive punctually. No latecomers will be admitted until a suitable break in the programme.
The content of this programme does not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
The presenter reserves the right to change progrmame and performers should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary.
Implementation
The programme will run for 11 months, from September 2008 to July 2009.
Primary Schools
There will be 1 or 2 sessions per week, each lasting for 1.5 hours, to a total of 25 sessions. It is targeted for P5 to P6 students, with 20 participants from each school.
Secondary Schools
There will be 1 session per week, each lasting for 1.5 hours, to a total of 25 sessions. It is targeted for S4 and S6 students, with 20 participants from each school.
All participating schools should make available 2 time slots for the course instructors to work out the class schedules for the students.
Admission Criteria
Participants should have the following experience and qualification when joining the Scheme:
Primary Schools
Participants should be those who have at least 2 years of experience playing a musical instrument.
Secondary Schools
Participants should possess (i) the musical knowledge equivalent to Grade 5 Music Theory of Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) and (ii) having learnt a musical instrument for at least 2 years.
Fees Payable
Fees for the full course: $300 (Secondary / Primary School students)
(Fees are on a per-head basis. All fees paid are not refundable.)
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