By the Division of Music

A cappella Music Arrangement Workshop for Teachers

Speaker : Mr. Fung Kwok-tung *

Date: 28 Nov. 2008

Time: 1:30 – 4:00 pm

Venue of workshop B1-G-19

Targets: Kindergarten/ Primary/ Secondary School Teachers

Max. Participants: 40

Language: Cantonese

Content:

• Try singing musical excerpts from representative contemporary a cappella works, e.g., Only You, Stand by Me, etc.
  
• Introduction of the development of various styles of a cappella music and its major features – vocal mimicry and non-sense syllables.
  
• Appreciation of AV materials by representative artists around the world.  
  
• Demo arrangement of a cappella music.

改編無伴奏歌曲工作坊

講者：馮國東 *
日期： 28/11/2008 （星期五）
時間：下午 1:30-4:00
地點： B1-G-19
對象：幼稚園 / 小學 / 中學教師
人數： 40 人
語言：廣東話

內容 :

• 簡介各種風格的無伴奏合唱之演進

• 介紹無伴奏合唱元素：非實義音節及人聲敲擊

• 欣賞世界各地具代表性組合之影音資料

• 示範編寫樂曲

• 介紹尋找樂譜途徑

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* 馮國東先生個人簡介

* Biography of Mr. Fung Kwok-tung

Fung Kwok-tung graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a first-class Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1995, majoring in music. In 1996, he was awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship for Overseas Studies to further his musical studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he received his Master in Music degree in 1998.

After returning to Hong Kong, Fung concentrated mainly on teaching and arranging works. He has been actively involved in various music productions, recordings and often being invited to conduct different kinds of workshops. Sponsored by the Hong Kong Art Development Council, he published Hong Kong’s first a cappella song book in 2006. In the same year he founded the Contemporary A Cappella Society of Hong Kong before becoming a local ambassador of the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America in the following year.

Fung Kwok-tung is also a founding member of Gay Singers – the only a cappella group in Hong Kong with a discography to its credit - with which he has made numerous TV appearances and performed overseas.

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