HPI概述

There’s a lot to love about HPI!

Camp is is divided into three sections:

1. 一般的课程
2. 应用技能
3. 音乐探索

Check out this detailed list of what to expect from each as a student camper!

一般的课程

All students participate in…

钢琴合奏

• 夏令营的一大亮点! Every student will be matched by level and experience with other camp students to prepare an ensemble performance in the final concert.
• 学生 learn collaboration 倾听技巧 while making friends.
• Each ensemble is coached by a faculty member and will be featured in a final concert for family and friends on Friday.

音乐 History and Literature

• 学生 will explore composers, 音乐的时间, keyboard literature and styles in this multimedia class.

性能论坛

• 学生 learn about various performance-related issues, including stage presence, 礼仪, 倾听技巧.
• 学生 may also perform for their peers, at the same time receiving feedback from a master teacher.

理论

• 学生 will learn 更多的 about how music is made, which includes identification of music elements, 音乐形式和更多, and how understanding these concepts will help the interpretation of music for performance.

活动展示

• 学生 spend this time exploring new facets of music through different formats including interactive demonstrations and games.

应用技能

Each camper chooses one Applied Skill on which to concentrate on during the week.

应用技能 classes give the student a chance to apply his or her musical knowledge and understanding to the development of a specific skill that will in some particular way enhance the student’s pleasure and performance at the piano.

钢琴独奏

• 学生 enrolled in “solo piano” will receive an array of performance helps such as individual private lessons and coaching, master class performances, and practice tutorial sessions.
• Level of playing may vary.
• It would be helpful for you to come prepared with at least one selection ready to polish with your camp-assigned teacher to perform.
• Each performer will perform a solo selection in the final Friday concert.

Hymn-playing, Improvisation, and Arranging (HIA)

• The HIA class will explore skills required for a church pianist, which may include hymn-playing, accompanying congregational singing, 独奏者, 组, arranging for offertories and other special music, 功能性技能, 比如介绍, 平和的时期, 关键变化.
• The class will be offered in a lab setting and will have both group and individual focused teaching.
• 学生 will have the opportunity to do some written arranging using 大结局.

音乐探索

A Daily musical exploration for students!

(The classes below are a sampling of previous Camp scheduling and do not represent the 2022 Camp 音乐探索 offerings.)

音乐 Tools: 音乐 Technology

• 学生 will learn to use 音乐 Technology tools 大结局 and Smart 音乐 in a fun and creative atmosphere.

钢琴家唱!

• An exploration of fun choral music and ensemble.
• 学生 work together to prepare a “singing” selection that will be performed in the Student Recital at the close of the week.

What is a Piano Technician? 调音入门

• 学生 will see the insides of a piano and experience how the mechanism works.
• With the guidance of a technician, students will explore the difference between the insides of a harpsichord and a piano and be introduced to tuning the instrument.

奥尔夫教学

• Orff Schulwerk is an approach to music teaching and learning, combined with and supported by movement, based upon fun and natural things to do (sing, chant rhymes, clap, move, and keep a beat or play a rhythm on anything near at hand).
• 学生 will have chance to explore music through instruments, the body and movement.

艺术缪斯

• A class outside of music that will inspire students to create and generate ideas about the world around them.