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EDDY CHONG teaches courses primarily related to music theory and analysis at
diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A recipient of the Overseas
Graduate Scholarship from NTU-NIE, Eddy completed his doctorate in Music
Theory at the Eastman School of Music. His thesis develops a Schenkerian
approach for the analysis of Ravel's piano music. He has since presented
further research on Ravel at conferences in Australia
and Finland.
His book chapter, "Contextualizing Ravel" has recently been
published in Music Research: New Directions for a New Century (Cambridge
Scholars Press, 2004).
Motivated by his belief
in integrating the learning of music theory and analysis with composing, he
has taken an interest in developing a pedagogical model for teaching
composing based on Fux's species counterpoint method. Applicational ideas
at various levels—primary, secondary and tertiary—have been
presented at conferences both overseas and locally, some of which will be
published shortly.
His current new area of
research is blogging as an instructional strategy. He has presented his
research on (edu)-blogging in music teaching at various conferences
including the Association of Technology in Music Instruction 30th
Conference in Quebec City, Canada (2005). His book chapter "Adaptive
Learning through Blogging: A Case Study in Music Teaching" has just
been published in Redesigning Pedagogy: Voice of Practitioners (2007).
Prior to his doctoral
studies, Eddy taught and co-ordinated the Music Elective Programme at the Raffles Junior College, where he also
conducted the RJC Ensemble which won certificates of distinction at the
Singapore Youth Festival competitions. Currently, besides lecturing and
supervising at NIE, he has shared his knowledge at enrichment sessions for
"O" level music teachers and band directors, and has given a
number of SSO pre-concert talks. In his weekends, he conducts his church
choir and plays the organ for service.
Research and Publication
Fuxian pedagogy for the
teaching of music composition
Chong, E. "Fuxian
Pedagogy for the 21st century." Paper delivered at the Asia Pacific
Conference on Education (Singapore),
3 Jun 2003.
Chong, E. "Fux's
Species Counterpoint and the Student-Centred Creative Approach to
Composing." Paper delivered at the Hawaii International Conference on
Education (Honolulu),
4 Jan 2004.
Chong, E.
"Structuring the Teaching of Composing: Fux reconsidered." Paper
delivered at the 2004 Nordic Musicological Congress (Helsinki), 13 Aug 2004.
Chong, E.
Powerpoint-based learning package on species counterpoint. Selected by CITE
for presentation at the International Conference on Educational Technology
(Singapore),
9-10 Sep 2004.
Chong, E. "Creative
activities for the classroom: ideas from Fux." Paper at the
Educational Research Association of Singapore
Conference (Singapore),
26 Nov 2004.
Chong, E. "Teaching
Enduring Understandings through Species Counterpoint." Paper at 16th
International Seminar on Education of the Professional Musician,
International Society of Music Education (Hanoi), 10-14 July 2006. [Published in
seminar handbook]
Chong, E.
"Innovating with Fux for the Primary Music Class." In Enterprising
Ideas, Innovative Practices, Volume 1: The Foundation Years. Edited by Ho
Boon Tiong, Jo-Ann Netto-Shek, Agnes Chang and Tan Oon Seng (Accepted for
Publication).
Chong, E.
"Composing as Knowing: Integrating Composing in the new G.C.E.
"O"-level music curriculum." In Enterprising Ideas,
Innovative Practices, Volume 2: The Foundation Years. Edited by Ho Boon
Tiong, Jo-Ann Netto-Shek, Agnes Chang and Tan Oon Seng (Accepted for
Publication).
Blogging as an instructional strategy in music
teaching
Chong, E., and W. M.
Soo. "Higher-order Learning in Music through Blogs." Paper at
CRPP's Redesigning Pedagogy Conference (Singapore), 30 May – 1
Jun 2005. [Published in conference CD-ROM]
Chong, E., and W. M.
Soo. "Integrative and Collaborative Music Learning Using Blogs."
Paper delivered at the Association for Technology in Music Instruction and
College Music Society joint-conference (Quebec City), 3-6 Nov 2005.
Chong, E. "Blogging
in Music Teaching: Engaged Learning beyond Classroom and Disciplinary
Boundaries." Paper at Educational Research Association of Singapore Conference (Singapore),
29-31 May 2006. [Published in conference CD-ROM]
Chong, E. "From
Blogging to Self-regulated Learning in Music." Symposium Paper on
"Fostering Blogging Communities for Learning: Case Studies" at
the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association International Conference
(Hong Kong), 28-30 Nov 2006. [Published in
conference CD-ROM]
Chong, E. and W. M. Soo.
"Adaptive Learning through Blogging: A Case Study in Music
Teaching." In Redesigning Pedagogy: Voice of Practitioners, ed. Chitra
Shegar and Ridzuan Abd Rahim, 15-31. Singapore:
Pearson Education South Asia, 2007.
Chong, E.
"Edublogging and Distributed Expertise in Music Teaching." Paper
delivered at the Redesigning Pedagogy Conference: Culture, Knowledge and
Understanding (Singapore),
28-30 May 2007.
On Ravel
Chong, E.
"Extending Schenker's Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien:
Towards a Schenkerian Model for the Analysis of Ravel's Music." PhD
diss., University
of Rochester, 2002.
Chong, E. "Ravel
and the Schubertian Non-tonic Reprise." Poster session at the 2004
Nordic Musicological Congress (Helsinki),
11-14 Aug 2004.
Chong, E.
"Contextualizing Ravel's Sonatine." In Music Research: New Directions
for a New Century, 345-57. Edited by Michael Ewans, Rosalind Halton, and
John A. Phillips. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2004.
Musical Performances
Conducted a combined
church choir with piano/orchestra for the Paya Lebar
Chinese Methodist
Church's 65th
Anniversary Christmas Celebration (45-minute presentation), 25 Dec 2004.
Accompanist for
performance of Zhan Hong Da's Passion Cantata, The Crucified God
(30-minute), Paya
Lebar Chinese
Methodist Church,
25 Mar
Accompanist for violin
lecture-recital (ExxonMobil-NIE Exploration of the Arts Series) by Tan Kia
Hui, 8 Sep 2006: 2 pieces
Accompanist for vocal
recital (ExxonMobil-NTU Exploration of the Arts Series) by Oliver Lo, 17
Jan 2007: 50-min programme
Undergraduate Academic
Exercise Supervision
Tan, Adeline Li Jen.
Structure, Rhythm and Harmony in the Spanish and Cuban Danzas of Ernesto
Lecuona. BA(Hons) Academic Exercise, National Institute of Education.
Ng, Samuel Xi Wei.
Seeing Messiaen's Visions L'Amen through the Composer's Eyes. BA(Hons)
Academic Exercise, National Institute of Education.
Thesis supervision
Leong, Wei Shin.
Assessment of Music Compositions by Music Elective Programme Students in Singapore:
A Comparative Study of the Criterion Based Method and the Consensual Assessment
Method. MEd (Mus Ed) thesis, National Institute of Education.
McDonald, Eric. Rogue
Trader Opera in Three Acts. MA (Composition) thesis, National Institute of
Education. [supervised analytical commentary]
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