YIN QI  COMPETITION 7^th Singing Competition

音契第七届声乐歌唱观摩赛 

比赛宗旨

比赛宗旨是为了鼓励并挖掘我国新进基督徒歌手，以纯美的正统声乐艺术演唱圣乐瑰宝，提升圣乐艺术；并藉此彼此观摩学习和促进音乐艺术之交流。

评委会

本届评委会由资深声乐界专家组成。评委会全权负责比赛的评审工作。评委会对赛事各轮比赛的评定为本比赛不可改变的最终决定。

参赛条件

1、具有正统声乐训练的基督徒均可报名参赛。

2、不拘年龄和种族。凡我国国籍，或外国国籍人士均可报名参加。

比赛曲目及程序

1、本届「声乐歌唱观摩赛」只设美声唱法。

2、比赛曲目包括圣诗，圣乐咏叹调，中外艺术歌曲、中国民歌和中外歌剧咏叹调。

3、比赛分为初赛及决赛两轮。

4、初赛演唱自选歌曲一首；决赛演唱自选歌曲一首和大会必选曲（圣乐作品）一首。

初赛和决赛曲目不得重复。决赛曲目均必须包含至少一首外文歌曲。

5、所有歌曲可转调，以适合不同声部使用，除了以下歌曲：歌剧咏叹调，清唱剧咏叹调和神剧咏叹调，必须以原调唱出。

6、大赛组委会不为参赛选手提供钢琴伴奏，参赛选手必须自带钢琴伴奏。比赛不接受以CD伴唱或清唱。

7、参赛选手请把初赛和决赛之演唱曲目和钢琴伴奏谱最迟在初赛前一个月交给大赛组委会审阅。

比赛时间

• 初赛日期为 2012年3月31日（星期六） @ 3pm ; Te Deum Workshop。
• 决赛赛日期为 2012年4月1日（星期日）@ 7:30pm ; PJ 育才华小礼堂。

参赛报名

1、报名时间：2012年1月30日开始 至 2012年3月10日。

2、报名方法:  a) 电子邮件：yinqi1993@gmail.com ；yinqi@streamyx.com

b) 传真: 03-79821576

c) 邮寄地址：Yin Qi Music Centre Bhd.

Lot 6.01B, Plaza Prima, Jalan Klang Lama, Batu 4 ½,

Wilayah Persekutuan, 58000 KL, Malaysia

请注明：“音契声乐歌唱观摩赛”组委会收

查询电话：03-79821576 或 016－3370997

3、个人参赛资料：

a) 报名参赛者须认真填写「音契声乐歌唱观摩赛」参赛报名表和履历表（可从音契网站 www.yinqi.org.my 下载）。凡年龄在十八岁以下者，其监护人须在报名表上签字。

b) 报名参赛者须提交个人一寸彩色近照两张及身份证复印本。

4、报名费1：马币50.00 。付款方式包括现金，转账或支票。

支票抬头请用 Yin Qi Music Centre Bhd.

参赛者只有在支付报名费后，其报名才会生效。

若在报到时再付报名费，则还须多付马币30元的延迟费。

比赛地点

• 初赛将在 Te Deum Music Workshop 举行，决赛将在「PJ育才华小讲堂」举行。具体比赛地点请见网站更新。

奖项设置

金奖1名，银奖1名和铜奖1名。

• 金奖马币700并自动获得音契主办于2012年10月11至21日之年青基督徒「扬声」巡回演唱会之演出参与资格。
• 银奖马币500
• 铜奖马币300

其它

1、参赛者一旦报名，将视为承认本次比赛所有规则有效。

2、参赛者须遵守本次比赛章程的要求及组委会的一切安排。如有违反者，组委会有权取消其参赛资格及所获奖项。

3、所有获奖选手必须亲自出席颁奖典礼领奖，不得代领，缺席选手将做自动放弃奖项处理。

4、大赛组委会拥有对本次大赛规则的最终解释权并有权更改大赛章程。

Haydn's oratorio The Creation - 2003

Haydn’s oratorio The Creation – 2003

孟德尔颂之神剧以利亚，由鲍以灵老师指挥，乐团伴奏;于新山宽柔中学演出.

Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah

Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah – 2003

Voice of Faith, conducted by Elaine Pao Yee Ling at Crown Princess Hotel Kuala Lumpur.

Voice of Faith – 2002

Voice of Faith – 2002

Handel’s Oratorio Messiah 2000

Handel’s Oratorio Messiah 2000

Handel’s Oratorio Messiah 1999

Handel’s oratorio Messiah, conducted by Dr. Wong Yau Sun, at Crown Princess Hotel , Kuala Lumpur and Hotel Equatorial Penang.

Words From Us
The oratorio “Messiah” is a work almost unsurpassed, a precious work out of the heritage of a long lived Christian civilization. Singing in its original text reserves as much of its style; accompanying by chamber group enriches its
expressions. Our performance of “Messiah” is not to boast of any man of any greatness, any creative effort in composing and in interpreting, any unique experience or integrity of humanity, but to proclaim through music, a media that sees no boundaries in space and time in projecting messages, prophecies that were spoken of the savior, the birth of Christ, and the Glory of God revealed through the crucifixion, resurrection and forever-reigning of Christ.

We’ve made great effort through disciplined training and by the grace of God to release ourselves from music-on-the-page and various techniques, to be able to share with you sincerely and truly our praises to the Creator our savior Jesus Christ, for … “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain …to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessing.”

What is Oratorio?
Strictly, it is a musical setting of a religious libretto for solo singers, choir, and orchestra in dramatic form but usually perform without scenery or costumes in concert-hall or church. It also applies to works on non-religious themes. The form originated in plays given in the Oratory of the church of Sta.Maria in Vallicella in Rome in the mid 16th century.

About Handel and his oratorio “Messiah”
At various times in their lives Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven all declared Handel to be the greatest composer that ever lived. George Frideric Handel was born in Germany in 1685 but spent most of his adult life in England, where he successfully combined the techniques of Germany, French, Italian, and English musical styles in an outpouring of 40 operas, 20 oratorios, and numerous other vocal pieces, instrumental works and church music. His work ultimately became a factor in the popularization of European music throughout the world.

Following his arrival in English in 1710, Handel had increasingly dominated the art-music of Britain , his Italian operas became highly fashionable in London. He became a naturalized British subject in 1726. Soon after that, his opera establishment was in serious financial difficult , partly due to the immense success of the Beggar’s opera by John Christopher Pepusch. Handel then turned to write some of the most splendid church music for state occasions, as Purcell had done before him. For the London opera audiences, he provided biblical oratorios. These were operas in all but name – performed in the manner of opera, by opera singers and in their theatres. Only the staging was missing

By 1741, Handel was overtaken by serious financial difficulties. Even his oratorios were not paying. Yet in spite of all his troubles, his masterpiece, “Messiah”, was composed in a matter of weeks.

Messiah was written for a charity concert in Dublin, and it was in that city that “Messiah” was first heard in 1742. It was received with tremendous enthusiasm, but when Handel produced it a little later in London , the idea of
presenting it in a theatre caused some initial unease and only gradually won its way to popularity. What is more, “Messiah” was unlike any of Handel’s other oratorios. Not only was it contemplative and reflective of its theme rather than vividly dramatic, but the subject was Christ himself, unlike the other oratorios based almost exclusively on Old Testament figures.

Few years later, Handel began to experience trouble with his eyesight. Although in failing health he participated in a performance of “Messiah” during the Lenten season of 1759. A week later he died in his house on Brook Street, London, esteemed and respected in England as the greatest composer of his age. After all the financial straits of earlier years, he died a wealthy man. He was buried in Westminster Abbey , where his monument by Roubillac still stands.

Words about Music
Music is the eye of the ear.
~~Thomas Draxe (d.1618)

Music is said to be the speech of angels. In fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It bring us near to the infinite.
~~ Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter, a sort of nebulous mediator, like and unlike each of the things it mediates —spirit that requires manifestation in time, and matter that can do without space.
~~Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Music is the universal language of mankind.
~~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.~~Jules Combarieu(1859-1916)

If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?
~~Confucius（551-47BC)

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art than can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
~~Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal bursting forth in sound.
~~Sir Thomas Aquinas

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life, the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
~~Beethoven(1770-1827)

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
~~Marie Louise de al Ramee (1839-1980)

Handel’s Oratorio Messiah 1999