Category:
08. Local Music and Art Forms
Description of Our Community:
Taipei Municipal Guang Fu Elementary School is located beside Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and contains a thick flavor of art. Although ¡§Speak and Sing Art Club¡¨ has only been around for a bit over two years, its reputation has already been very resounding. There have even been students that have won contests. Mr. Lin, Wen-bin who is reputable in the art field, directs the ¡§Speak and Sing Art Club¡¨ of Taipei Municipal Guang Fu Elementary School. Under his direction, members are not only familiar with the structure of ¡uKuai- Ban-Shu¡v(), but also understand the beauty of phonology of Chinese characters, the allusions of set phases and their usages. The effect is fairly good.

¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v is a kind of performance art of considerably high difficulty that needs language and performance skills. The bamboo clappers with the sound of ¡§Pi-Pa¡¨ makes it pleasant to hear and lively. Thus, this is also the most bright, vivacious and easiest to learn in the art of talking and singing. During the time we are learning ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v, we also started to have a passion in studying about ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v. Although it is a type of traditional art, it is not ¡§old stuff ¡¨ at all. We hope though through this study and performance demonstration, we can let more people enjoy this type of art as well.
Summary of Our Project:
¡uTalk¡vis the indispensable tool of communication in our daily life. ¡uTalk¡v though common, had become an unique knowledge-¡§Speak and Sing Art¡¨¡I Its scope is very broad, ranging from comic dialogue, rhythmic storytelling to clapper accompaniment( ¡uShulaibao¡v), Big drum of Peking rhyme, ¡uIron Plate Kuai- Shu¡v, ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v¡K etc., which have their ingenious parts. This time we use ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡vas research topic - introducing the origin of ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v, forms and skills of performance, and progress of form ties between bamboo clappers, Mr. Lin, Wen-bin and ¡uZhu Ban Kuai Shu¡v, and also interviewed Ms. Chen, Yu-xiu, Secretary General of National Cultural Association, to speak glowingly of the innovation of traditional arts.

¡uSpeak and Sing Art¡vbelongs to the learning field of ¡uArts and Humanities¡vin Taiwan's 9 years mandatory education. ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v is¡uSpeak and Sing Art¡vof Chinese tradition, Peking dialect with clear articulation and a mellow and full tune, and add bamboo clappers with sounds of Pi-Pi-Pa-Pa. This is interesting, pleasant to hear and lively. ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v is the easiest to learn in the ¡uSpeak and Sing Art¡v. The students hit bamboo clappers, simultaneously speak the fascinating story with clear articulation and a mellow and full tune; to follow learning with relaxed, remember many idioms & verses and general knowledge of Chinese imperceptibly. We can say it achieves many things at one stroke and is the most interesting language teaching and studying. Taipei Municipal Guang Fu Elementary School founded the ¡§Speak and Sing Art Club¡¨ two years ago. The motive is to train students to get acquainted with speaking arts, and developed ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v as the major characteristics of the organization. Students often performed ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v at school¡¦s celebration events, and got many favorable comments. The time the special subject was focused on ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v, to interview senior performers and to introduce the origin and form of performance of ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v, to let more people acquaint this traditional art.
 
Our Internet Environment:
Our school provides ADSL for linking to internet with an upload speed of 2MB and download speed of 384 KB. We have completed a wireless internet this year and can receive the internet message in the campus everywhere. There are four computer classrooms and a multi-media center for making teaching materials in our school. In each computer classroom, there are 35 computers for the students to have the computer class. Also, there is a desktop computer in every classroom of the school and there are more than 90 notebooks provided for teachers to personal use. Totally, we have 106 classrooms at school. So, approximately, there are more than 350 computers in our school, including the computers for the administrative use. Every computer is provided with an exclusive line for connecting to internet and various web services are available for application through the server. The school's servers include Web Server, Mail Server, DNS Server and Proxy Server that provide convenient online application environment. Every student has his or her own E-mail address and has the capability of web making.
 
 
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The Problems We Encountered and Coped With:
ùþ Time Is Tight¡BThe Gap of Members' Ages is Large
 
We got the information of this contest at a tight schedule, from December we just start the planning and process of whole research subject, there are only two months to prepare if we deduct the period of final exam and New Year¡¦s holiday; so whole the activity is prepared in a hurry situation, from find the research theme, allocate works, collect inforOvermation, plan interview activity, questionnaire design, various software learning, webpage design etc. all the preparation need to seize time, share out the work and cooperate with one another, make great efforts to run with time. In addition, our team members range from Second Grade to Sixth Grade, and it¡¦s difficult to match everyone¡¦s schedule. There is also wide learning gap in computer and writing abilities; hence in allocating the jobs, we have to be aware of the specialty and age of each member in order to do the most suitable arrangement in manpower. And the members of younger age are very interested in this topic, so they spent more efforts on creativity and to write what they have learned from work. They hold meetings on weekends to discuss, arrange interview and questionnaire. Of course other works have to be done after school by the members in their utmost effort. In the entrance website, the members also set up family website as information contact point, fully utilize Yahoo Messenger as mutual contact, and maximize the utility of every minute.
 
 
ùþ First time participation-Lack Experience
 
To attend this monographic study, the most exciting thing is to interview many professional people. The first time when we interviewed Ms. Zheng, the leader of ¡§Speak and Sing Art Club¡¨ of Taipei Municipal Guang Fu Elementary School, we had still not stressed the skills of interview, hence asked the questions tongue-tiedly, and couldn¡¦t remembered the whole answers, passably we had recording pen to make up this deficiency. The second time when we interviewed Ms. Chen, Yu-xiu, Secretary General of National Cultural Association, because the interview site is a little bigger, when we asked questions, voice was not loud and clear. Fortunately we have told Ms. Zheng the digests of interview in advance; she answered all our questions clearly and cordially. The third time when we interviewed Mr. Lin, Wen-bin, and our experience was better and abundant; not only we emailed all the questions to him in advance, but also asked the questions more naturally. Mr. Lin spoke with fervor and assurance, his answers seemed like telling a story, this interview lasted for more than one hour, and we could say that it was very successful.
Maxim in Our Hearts:
Club activity at the school gives us the opportunity to get acquainted ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v. After the initial contact, we discovered that ¡uZhu-Ban-Kuai-Shu¡v has a humane feeling behind the far-reaching history; we couldn¡¦t help being proud of our culture. And through the interview of Ms. Chen, Yu-xiu, Secretary General of National Cultural Association, we then understood that fully comprehension of our own culture enables us to obtain respects from other countries. And thorough understanding our traditional culture, we could have better ability and creativity to carry it forward.
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