Getting Started with Applied Music for Schools
To get started with the ReHearsal House Applied Musicals for Schools, obtain a registration form (at 5,000NGN per school) from ReHearsal House Nigeria.
B. Music Room/Workshop designs and Installation:
Having registered with ReHearsal House Nigeria, the next step is the installations and designs for a Music Room/Workshop.
To do this, our Music Room Installation team would visit your school to ascertain the best location (possible) to set up the School's Music Department. A School's Music Department should include all or some of the following (depending on available resources):
1. Music Class Room(s):
Class room(s) suitable for Music lessons, with wall paintings serving to enhance musicality. Each Musical Class room should accommodate 20 students/pupils per time (session). A large enough Dummy Piano should be placed on the wall just next to a marker board, and if possible, each music class room, should have a keyboard (or grand piano), by the right hand corner of the classroom.
2. Music Workshop:
Practical Workshop Sessions take place here, during the classes, the musical educators from ReHearsal House (trained to teach every aspects of Music Theory Practically: with clear and thorough practical illustrations), teach the listed topics on the curriculum illustrating as much practically as possible and giving several practice exercises and rehearsal pieces (from simple preparatory exercises, etudes, preludes to bagatelles, concertos, symphonies, etc. We teach both from score sheets, improvizations and scores by ear) during the class room sessions, so that workshop sessions are entirely dedicated to students/pupils practice and rehearsals supervised by the ReHearsal House musical instructors. The workshop therefore, should not only have the requisite musical Grafitti wall paintings but must also be thoroughly equipped, each student should practice on their respective instruments, as much as its possible, especially woodwind and brass instruments, indeed, for the woodwind and brass instruments, where the students are unable to have their own instruments, they must have their own mouth piece, which they will insert to the instruments (the school's instruments) before playing. Other instruments such as the string instruments and the keyboards (and piano where available), may be "borrowed" but NOT the brass and woodwinds. The number of these instruments which may be supplied to each schools, depends on the schools budget as well as the number of students per workshop session: RH designates not more than 20 students/pupils per session, and this should require for instance: 10 keyboards. The string, brass, woodwind ensembles depends on the instruments being enlisted for the study. Subscribers of our programs should note that everything "is possible" and depends on the scope of the musical project desired by the school (also see various instruments and their price listings on our instruments catalogue or visit our Online Store
3. Music Laboratory:
The purpose of a Musical Laboratory is research- musical research and compositions: including the arrangements of various musical pieces both by students well advanced enough in Musical Performance (assigned certain music projects) and the musical instructors, musical directors et al. The Music laboratory should include at least one professional version of each listed instruments, where possible, computer system, a set of printers, marker board and customed marker score sheet board, as well as a couple of study and writing desks, etc. A Music Lab/workshop attendant, may be enlisted.
4. Recording Studio
Where necessary and if possible, a school could include recording studio facilities, the musical departments, plans recording projects for the school's music club (comprising of the school band, the school orchestra, and various groups: trios, duets, quartets, mass choir, etc.) each session. Various options of Recording studio may be possible, depending on the budget and scope of the school. Studio facilities range from analog, digital and both.
C. Subscriptions:
With facilities installed the Music Department is set to be up and running! Therefore, it is time to make the termly subscription fees. The subscription fees (payable in not more than two installments termly), also depends on the scope of the Music Program. However subscriptions covers:
1. Management of school's musical departments:
Whether there is an already existing department of applied music or not, our services includes a partnership with the school in the Management of the department of Applied Music. This is seen to by the appointments of project managers, both by the school (from the school's end) and by ReHearsal House (from our own end).
2. Curriculum, Repertoire, Training and Recital Jury:
Our curriculum is updated at least every session. Subscriptions paid in full covers for the school's copy (soft copy/hard copy) of the curriculum. Also, the subscription covers, the lecture and workshop sessions for the term being paid for. The subscription fees for services which includes the Musical Laboratory and Recording studio, applies differently from the general (standard subscription fees). The third term subscription fees also covers the jury of the students recitals as well as the examining of the Tests of Applied Music.
3. The subscription fees covers the personnel costs. Therefore again, the fees varies with the scope of the project, as the scope of the project would determine the number of personnel we would require for the project execution.
D. Program Administration:
For schools subscribed to this program, there will be required from the school's end, one appointed to head the Applied Music Project, such a personnel represents the school as the school's applied Music Project manager. Also, ReHearsal House would assign one of our own personnel to represent ReHearsal House as the ReHearsal House Applied Music Project Manager in the particular school. Both Project managers are responsible for their leadership of this project, both representing their respective organizations, the ReHearsal House project manager, presents the project situation reports every two weeks to the school via the school's project manager, and remarks, complaints, etc from the school, in same vein are passed on to ReHearsal House via the project manager, this is to ensure smooth operations. Before the start of every term, both Project Managers would meet to look into the plans for the term, every programs, requiring some forms of musical representations should be relayed to ReHearsal House via the project manager in order to ensure smooth planning, and whatever additional resources (if any) that may be required shall also be relayed to the school via the project manager.
Again bear in mind the goals of the applied music program for schools. These goals and even more is achievable and do not by any means soever, need to interfere with regular school academic curriculum or truncate students/pupils learning, but, rather, should enhance, boost and improve your students/pupils performance! Our repertoire has been meticulously selected with this end in view.
For further information, questions, etc, contact ReHearsal House Nigeria .
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