Lesson 3 (July 8)

Lesson 3: Arranging exercise, experimenting music in context's rationale summer homework

• Back couple steps, arrange/transcribe the piece, "The Sound Of Silence" by Paul Simon from vocal and piano, to 4-part vocal (SATB) by hands on stave papers provided, as practice for your a cappella arrangement

  • (I found out that some of you are still confused on what we're doing for the project, so we'll take this slowly and build up your skills on Western music notation)

  • arrange/transcribe up to the end of the bar with the lyrics "...and echoed in the wells of silence" on page 5

• Summer vacation homework: rationales for your experimenting music in context

  • basically is to set a clear, detailed goal (rationale) for you to reach as a performer on an instrument/or voice you have no or very little experience within the time until the submission for the final assessment

  • write a proposal in English (around 500 words) and submit it on ManageBac after summer vacation (check the exact date on ManageBac)

  • read through the assessment (word document) and the example rationale (pdf file) on Slack