Our Curriculum

Curriculum:

School-based Music conception / elements:

Develop awareness and understanding of music,

e.g.

• Pitch: intervals, scales, range
• Duration/Rhythm: syncopation, polyrhythm, polymetre, backbeat, dingban (yibansanding, yibanyiding, liushuiban)
• Dynamics: gradation of dynamics, subtle differences and changes in dynamics
• Tempo: gradation of tempi, subtle differences and changes in tempi
• Timbre: timbres of different combinations of voices and instruments, different ways of sound production in voices and instruments, effects of recorded and mixed sounds
• Texture: monophony, homophony, polyphony, heterophony
• Harmony: chords, harmonic progression, cadences
• Tonality: modes, atonality, modulation, polytonality, concept of modes and xian of Cantonese opera (shigongxian, hechexian, yifanxian, fanxian)

Structure/Form: repeated and contrasting sections (e.g. binary, ternary and rondo form), forms with developing ideas (e.g. theme and variation, sonata), Chinese instrumental forms (e.g. liushibaban, taoquti), banshi in Cantonese opera (e.g. qiziqingzhongban, bazijuerhuangmanban), yuyaowei, hetouhewei