Music

Learning objectives

Students are expected to:

  • develop music ideas and acquire creating skills, together with performing and listening, to cultivate creativity and imagination;

  • develop performing skills to experience and express music, with emphasis on cultivating music imagination and musicality in practice;

  • comprehend, respond to and appraise music so as to nurture aesthetic sensitivity and awareness;

  • understand the functions of music and the relationship between music and cultures.

 

 

Our Team

  • Department Head: Ms. Haren Cho

 

Activities 

Singing Contest

 

Tops Performance

 

Vocal Singing Workshop

 

Curriculum 

Secondary 1 Curriculum

  • Meter

  • Rhythm

  • Melody

  • Creative Corner

  • Vocal Music and Musical Texture

  • The Pentatonic Scale

  • Music with a Story

 

Secondary 2 Curriculum

  • Introduction, Interlude and Coda

  • Performance Markings and Atmosphere in Music

  • Major and Minor Tonalities

  • Creating Chordal Accompaniment

  • Writing lyrics for a tune

  • Music from Different Lands

  • Function of Music in Society

  • Romantic Music

 

Secondary 3 Curriculum

  • Creating Chordal Accompaniment

  • Opera and Musicals

  • The Elements of Music

  • Classical Music

 

Secondary 4 Curriculum

  • Music in Films

  • Baroque Music

  • Pop Music

 

Secondary 5 Curriculum

  • Canton pop

  • Cantonese Opera

  • A Cappella Singing

  • Composing Pop Music

 

Learning Resources

  1. Department of Culture and Creative arts, The Education University of Hong Kong
    http://www.ied.edu.hk/cca/
  2. Department of Music, Hong Kong Baptist University
    http://mus.hkbu.edu.hk/
  3. Department of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/mus/
  4. Department of Music, The University of Hong Kong
    http://www.hku.hk/music/
  5. Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
    http://www.hkapa.edu/
  6. International Society for Music Education
    http://www.isme.org/
  7. Radio Television Hong Kong
    http://www.rthk.org.hk/
  8. Chinese Music Archive, Music Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/mus/cma/
  9. Chinese Opera Information Centre, Music Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    http://www.cuhkcoic.hk/
  10. 中國戲曲查篤撐
    http://www.rthk.org.hk/chiculture/chiopera/
  11. 中國尋珍
    http://www.rthk.org.hk/chiculture/china_music/main.htm
  12. Beatles.com
    http://www.thebeatles.com/
  13. Elvis.com
    http://www.elvis.com
  14. 粵語流行曲-維基百科
    http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B2%A4%E8%AF%AD%E6%B5%81%E8%A1%8C%E6%AD%8C%E6%9B%B2