Your invoice was sent to you in May together with the letter telling you that you had been enrolled for the school.
If you have not already paid please may we remind you that the 4th July is the final date for settlement.

The balance owing if you have paid just a deposit of £40 is:

We reserve the right to cancel the enrolment of any student who has not paid the balance by the due date, and to allocate the place to another student.

CANCELLATIONS

If you are unable to attend the school would you please us know immediately so we can fill your place.
Tel:- Steve Taylor on 01706 875997.

Please make sure that you have holiday insurance to cover you for unforeseen circumstances.

ACCOMMODATION

Please remember that there are no rooms with private facilities, so don’t forget that dressing gown!
Towels are not supplied so please remember to bring enough for the week.

Please do not bring any aerosols with you, they set off the fire alarm!!!!

Accommodation is in student halls set in the grounds of the school and is of a basic standard. Please be aware that as the site is hilly the accommodation and the classroom blocks are some distance apart, it is not ideal for those with mobility difficulties. Please contact Steve Taylor on 01706 875997 to discuss any accessibility issues.

Your room number along with a keycode to access your designated house will be given to you on arrival. Each house is equipped with a common room with tea / coffee making facilities, fridge and microwave. Student houses will have a student warden who will be responsible for fire drill and reporting any problems.

ROOM SHARING

If you’d like to share with a friend then please let us know by Friday 4th July
All rooms have single beds. No double beds are available. Rooms have one, two, three, or four single beds.

Unless you have booked for a single room you will be allocated a room with other students of the same sex.

SINGLE ROOMS

These are allocated on a first come first served basis.

FOOD

All meals are served in the light and airy Refectory.
There will be a light lunch and the main meal will be served in the evening.
If you have any special dietary requirements you have not indicated on your application form then please let us know as soon as possible.
On arrival you will be issued with a name badge. Please look after it. You will need it to get your meals in the refectory. So, no badge, no meal!

On Saturday 2 August ONLY, the evening meal will be at 17.00

ESSENTIALS TO PACK

• Any medication you may need
• Dressing Gown
• Enough towels for a week (bed linen is supplied)
• Music stand (with your name on it)
• Spare reeds, strings etc
• All your instrument (s)!!
• Music

TIME OF ARRIVAL

On arrival please report directly to the M4P Reception which will be clearly signposted. You may park on the car park adjacent to the main school buildings.

Check in time is from 3pm on Saturday. At Reception you will be given your envelope containing essential information such as your room number and door codes, a timetable for the rest of the week, and site plan.

Please do not arrive before 3pm as staff will be preparing rooms from the previous holiday week. If you get there before then please take some time to have a look around
Settle and Giggleswick.

HOW TO GET TO GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL Top of Page

BY ROAD:
From the North -
Giggleswick is next to the A65, the main link road between the M6 and Leeds. Approaching from the North, take the B6480 signposted ‘Settle’. Take the right turn signposted Giggleswick School. Continue down the lane until you see the school on your left.
From the South -
From Leeds stay on the A65, and go straight on at the Settle roundabout, After about a mile taking the next turning on the right, signposted Giggleswick. At the crossroads, carry straight over into Raines Road, and on past the all weather pitch. Turn left at the T-junction, start to go up the hill and you will see the main entrance to the school on your right.

BY RAIL:
From the North -
Trains from Edinburgh Waverley approximately every two hours. Prices from around £55. The school is five minutes by taxi from Settle station.
From the South -
Trains from London Kings Cross to Leeds. Change at Leeds for the train to Settle (every two hours) Prices from around £40 (with a single ticket each way) if you book early! The school is five minutes by taxi from Settle station.

WELCOME MEETING – SATURDAY 2nd August Top of Page

There will be a welcome meeting in the Sports Hall at 6pm. This will be your opportunity to meet the tutors and fellow students.
Tutors will expect you to attend all the sessions of the courses for which you have enrolled.
Exceptions will be made only with the agreement of the appropriate tutors.
If you have queries about the courses for which you have enrolled, or if you have any difficulty over choices of courses occurring at the same time in your timetable, you should discuss them before the school with Steve Taylor, or with the tutor after the Welcome meeting on Saturday evening.
Some classes will have a get together on the Saturday evening after the welcome meeting.

HELPING US TO HELP YOU Top of Page

We still need people to act as buddies to help new students settle in to the school. It can be overwhelming to arrive at an event where there is so much going on so, if you feel you could help someone get to know their way around and introduce them to people on your course, please contact Kevin John (email: kevin@m4p.org.uk , tel: 02920 318298)

We would also like to ask for volunteers to act as house wardens. This entails checking the file we will provide in each common room every morning to see whether anyone has reported a domestic problem (eg. No toilet paper, a leaking sink etc) and, if so, informing a member of the committee at breakfast so that they can ensure it gets sorted out. We would also ask house wardens to collect a jug of milk from the Refectory for “their” kitchen after breakfast so that people can make their own tea and coffee. If you are willing to take this on, please contact any of the committee to volunteer.

RAFFLE Top of Page
Donations of prizes for our “bottle” raffle will be most welcome!

SAY CHEESE Top of Page
A group photograph of everybody will be taken just before lunch on Sunday. Copies will be available on the Music for People website. A nice memento of your stay at Giggleswick and of the friends you met there.

NOTICE BOARD Top of Page
There will be a school notice board outside the dining room. Check it out regularly for news of what’s on where, lost and found etc.

COFFEE CONCERTS Top of Page
Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea will be served in the Refectory. There will be an opportunity for some short ‘impromptu’ performances, anything from solos to massed ensembles. If you’d like to take part in these please add your name to the list on the school notice board or contact Kevin John on your arrival with details of your ‘party piece’. Items usually last between five and ten minutes

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE EVENINGS? Top of Page
Loads!! You won’t be looking for something to do in the evenings!

Saturday Evening – Chill out and get to know your fellow students in the Dutton Centre Bar and nightclub.
Sunday night at the Giggleswick Grand – Variety Concert
Monday evening – Music and Poetry of Social Significance
There are two student concerts on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in the Concert Hall.
These are for individual performers and small groups. The more varied items the better –solo singers, duettists, poetry readers, and small ensembles. If you would like to take part in any of these please put your name on the list on the school notice board when you arrive, or contact Jill Snowdon on 01347 810914 before the school. To allow as many students as possible the chance to perform you are asked to initially put your name down for ONE solo performance only during the student concerts.

The bar will be open in the Dutton Centre from 7pm-12 midnight. (1am on Friday evening)

COURSE CONCERTS Top of Page
This year, course concerts will again take place throughout the day on Friday. A detailed schedule will be included in your Welcome Pack. Concerts will be professionally recorded and bespoke CDs will be available to order after the school.

VISITORS TO SUMMER SCHOOL Top of Page
Non participating partners of students who are both staying at the school are welcome to attend all evening events. Former students, parents and friends of students will be welcome at the Friday concerts of the Summer School by prior arrangement with the Organiser.

COMPOSERS CONCERT
" COMPOSERS! - whether you have a ripe old fruit, a bursting flower or just have a musical notion rising in the sap of creativity" ( to paraphrase the immortal Humph) then BRING ALONG ANY COMPOSITIONS YOU COULD LIKE TO HEAR IN OUR INFORMAL, NON-JUDGEMENTAL AND ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS COMPOSERS CONCERT. if necessary we can tout around for players and organise a bit of a rehearsal... "

NOTES FROM THE TUTORS Top of Page

Jazz Harmony and Improvisation 1, 2 & 3 - Paul Bartholomew and Team
Further specific details on repertoire will be available before the course on the Summer School website www.m4p.org.uk. Singers enrolling for Levels 2/3 will be expected to participate in all tunes studied, and may select another song from the book, but should email the title (with any key changes required) to m4pjazz@f2s.com by July 25th 2008. Added to this repertoire is a yet untitled 32 bar standard tune, this is being written to be performed as part of a newly commissioned Opera “Brushwork” to be performed in the Friday concert. For the traditionalists amongst you there will also be a chance to work on and perform 2 stomp tunes “King Porter Stomp” and “Black Bottom Stomp”

Big Band (A) - Paul Bartholomew and Team
All suitable instrumentalists are encouraged to join this ensemble which plays a variety of Big Band Music from Neal Hefti, Glenn Miller and Sammy Nestico to contemporary styles based on Latin and Funk grooves. Daily sessions developing good ensemble playing will prepare for a concert at the latter end of the course. Student numbers may be limited to give a balanced band. Singers interested in performing with the Big Band should make themselves known to the Tutor at the beginning of the course.

Open Jazz Orchestra (O) - Simon Atkins
Suitable for all-comers and all instrumentalists. By using a carefully chosen repertoire of arrangements of well-known Jazz standards this group concentrates on ensemble playing, getting the right groove, swing feel, phrasing, improvisation, dynamics and all that Jazz! Highly recommended for those in Jazz Harmony/Improvisation 1 or those completely new to an ensemble tackling Jazz repertoire.

Brass Band (B) - Dave Payn Top of Page
With a full band, I would like to consider established concert/contest works of around 2nd/3rd section standard, possibly higher. Whilst I have my own ideas, I would welcome feedback from potential students. Gilbert Vinter’s Entertainments, Allan Street’s Rococo Variations, Simon Dobson’s Lydian Pictures and Gordon Langford’s Sinfonietta are considerations of mine, and as ever, I’m willing to consider pieces brought by students from their own libraries. It is my intention to repeat the successful ensemble classes from 2007, and indeed, to expand it to perform some antiphonal brass music, from the pens of Giovanni Gabrieli, Samuel Scheidt and other similarly dated brass music, (including an excellent arrangement of the opening chorus to Monteverdi’s Vespers) with the aim to perform some of these in the chapel. Percussionists please note instruments will be available, so there is no need haul a set of timps in the mini up to Yorkshire.

Ceilidh Band Practice - Louisa Ridgway
Everyone welcome, from whatever course whatever instrument, to practice for the folk dance band; and/or to try out some steps. It is ensemble playing with a difference, by ear or from music. Come to as many sessions as you can.

Chamber Music (E) - Helen Fishwick, Helen Purton & Graham Tear
The tutors will bring a range of music for wind, strings and mixed groupings. Participants are also encouraged to bring along any suitable music from home (please label carefully!).
Anyone wishing to request specific repertoire should contact Helen Fishwick at least one week before the start of the course: helen.fishwick@gmail.com

Chamber Choir (D) - Louisa Ridgway, Accompanist: Judi Kelly
A course for more competent choral singers with reasonable sight reading skills. In addition to the course music, this course will be inter-linked with the Opera “Brushstroke”, working on the choral parts of the Opera with the opportunity of short solos.

Choir (F) - Louisa Ridgway, Accompanist: Judi Kelly
A fun session for which all students are encouraged to enrol. A wide variety of music will be sung.

Composition (G) - Bill Tamblyn Top of Page
A new approach! It is hoped that composers will bring compositions that can be discussed and developed by fellow composers and by a group of ‘musicians in residence’. We will work towards a composers concert at the end of the week. (it would help enormously if composers who have more elaborate compositions to show and perform could send a score and/or a performance on disc at least a month in advance to Bill Tamblyn via the Music for People secretariat). We will also accommodate those who would like to learn about or share their enthusiasm for the Sibelius music programme. We will make a PC available for you to practice in your ‘free’ time during the week.

Dalcroze Eurhythmics - Helen Purton & Helen Fishwick
This course involves physical movement, so participants should aim to wear comfortable clothing. Eurhythmics is best practised barefoot, though socks with rubber grips on the soles are a good alternative.

Dance Band (H) - Paul Medina
An ensemble playing strict-tempo arrangements by the great Jimmy Lally. Good sight-readers are required for this band, which will appear as entertainment on at least one occasion over the week with minimum rehearsal! Saxes, Brass, Rhythm section and strings all required. Interested parties should make themselves known to the tutor at the beginning of the week.

Early morning warm up sessions - Louisa Ridgway
Described as suitable for anyone but particularly aimed at singers and brass players and all who use their breath during the day. Physical exercise, breathing and gentle vocalising to ease everyone into the start of the long day.

Folk (I) - Robin Garside Top of Page
The course is primarily intended to stimulate an interest in, to inform about and enable people to participate in, the folk music of the British Isles, although other cultures may be touched upon. The course is for musicians and singers of all ability and the primary objectives are to learn something about folk music, join in with group music-making activities, maybe write a song or a piece of music, but mainly to enjoy the course. While there is no need to be able to read music, an idea of the rudiments of harmony and music will be included in the course.

Orchestral and Band Percussion (J) - Christopher Evans
It has been proven by science that being a percussionist is the most fun that anyone can have. This course introduces you to the wide and varied world of orchestral percussion, building on your existing music-reading skills. It will show you the few basic techniques that will enable you to play in an orchestral or band percussion section. You will be able to explore orchestral repertoire and develop existing skills. You will work towards playing with the wind-band and orchestra at the end of the week (previous students all enjoyed the amazing experience of working as a percussion team in ‘real-time’). New this year will be the opportunity for previous students to elect to work on orchestral extracts and ensemble music.
All equipment and instruments are provided and you will be very welcome to bring your own. Advice can be given in advance about purchasing mallets and instruments if you wish to do so.

Opera (P) - Virginia Rushton, Accompanist Russell Hepplewhite
New Opera Course! - Students should already have been advised of their roles in this years new opera, called “Brushwork”, written by three Summer School tutors and it is intended that the opera course will premiere the piece at the end of the Summer School. It is expected that you will be note and word perfect before the course begins. You will have received details about the music, costumes and props well in advance.
Please note: this course is timetabled in Sessions 1 and 2; Session 3 is also set aside for coaching sessions for the singers taking principal roles in the opera; if you want to do the opera course and take another course that is also timetabled for Session 3 you should check with the other Tutor that this is possible.

Percussion Ensemble (Q) - Christopher Evans
I’m looking for the most inquisitive, daring and innovative music minds in Summer School to take part in this exciting group. The ensemble will be involved in composing a Percussion Event to be performed with the Opera ! If you love sounds, hitting things and asking ‘why not ?’, this will appeal to you. An ‘O’ level in carpentry, sticking things together or ‘borrowing’ may be an advantage ! Previous experience in manipulating large pieces of paper is a bonus.
You can bring instruments and noise making apparatus with you or source them when you get here; Summer School has a large percussion department. Orchestral, folk and ethnic instruments will live alongside more innovative instruments. Experienced percussionist or other ‘musicians’, beginners or anywhere in between will be able to contribute at a high level in this exciting project.
Group size will be limited so apply robustly. If you think that you would enjoy this, you’re probably right.

I wish I could Sing (K) - Virginia Rushton Top of Page
This course is for those people, including instrumentalists, who want to sing but need help to find their singing voice. It will also suit those who think that they have lost the voice that they once had. Sadly, lots of people lose opportunities to sing when they transfer to secondary school and never have the time or the opportunity to pick it up again. Here is your chance! This is a carefully designed and effective course to help you discover your voice and the joy of singing within a completely supportive atmosphere.

Take a Deep Breath (V) - Virginia Rushton
Perhaps you already belong to a choir or singing group and want to develop your skills, feel happier about hitting the high notes, extend your range, understand the connections between words and music, and – if you want to - grow your confidence in singing solo. This structured course will include a mix of exercises, simple part songs in different styles, and the opportunity to bring and sing solo songs to enable you to get even more pleasure from your singing. Please advise the tutor if you want to sing solo.
If you are not sure which of the above 2 courses is the right one for you, the tutor (Virginia Rushton Tel: 0208 858 9041) will advise you.

String Orchestra (S) - Helen Fishwick assisted by Helen Purton
The string orchestra will be working on a range of repertoire over the course of the week, including Corelli's Concerto Grosso opus 6 no. 8 and Alan Ridout's Sinfonia for Strings and Percussion.

Symphonic Wind Orchestra (T) - Graham Tear Top of Page
A large ensemble for wind, brass and percussion, playing a mixture of original works and arrangements. Percussionists please note instruments will be available, so there is no need haul a set of timps in the mini up to Yorkshire.

Symphony Orchestra (U) - Graham Tear assisted by Helen Purton,
Dave Payn & Helen Fishwick
Aims to join together the various instrumental courses. For those who are less experienced orchestral players, it will give a certain amount of cover and support. For those already playing in orchestras, it will give an opportunity to build on technique and work with a different conductor for a week. Percussionists please note instruments will be available, so there is no need haul a set of timps in the mini up to Yorkshire.

Technique for Brass Players: Session 3 - Dave Payn
Technique for brass will cover general aspects of brass technique in a structured manner. Students are invited to bring their own music for discussion.

Theory (W) - Bill Tamblyn
”Grade 5 theory without tears!” a new programme of learning designed to propel even the most cautious towards the ABRSM grade 5 theory. We will also accommodate those who would like to work towards Grade 8 theory and already have a good pass at grade 5. As usual we will set ‘homework’ each lesson and squeeze in extra tutorials if you need them.

World Music Singing Group (X) - Bill Tamblyn
Music from the New World this year we will be rehearsing songs from the Caribbean, and the American ‘deep south’ linked to music from the ‘slave states’ of West Africa. Bring your voice, your guitars, anything you want to shake, rattle or even roll and of course bring examples of vocal music you would like to share with us.