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Area Activities

English translation: regional activities

11:36 Jul 4, 2011
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Music / in the leaflet of a concert
English term or phrase: Area Activities
The YYYY County Music Service, part of the Local Authority, YYYY County Council, is a ‘one-stop music shop’ that seeks to enable schools to plan, provide and deliver a comprehensive music curriculum for all pupils including, where appropriate, specialist instrumental and vocal tuition. The Service also provides an extensive programme of extra-curricular activities for young musicians known as "YYYY Youth Music". This includes six local Music Schools that meet on Saturday mornings and offer beginner and intermediate ensemble activities. Young musicians are then encouraged to move on to ***Area Activities*** – youth orchestras, bands, jazz orchestras, string ensembles and a choir – which meet on weekday evenings in several towns. At the highest level YYYY is represented by three ensembles that work to the most advanced standards, the YYYY Youth Orchestra, the YYYY Youth Wind Band and the YYYY Young Strings.

YYYY is the name of the county.

What is the sense of Area here?
Ana Juliá
Spain
Local time: 18:45
Selected answer:regional activities
Explanation:
I would see this as taking part in very local school- or music school-based activities and then moving up to a regional activity which may not be based in your town.

For example - I was in my school wind band, then in the West Kent Wind Band, based in our local town's music school, then you went up to the Kent Youth Wind Band, based in another town - that's why I think this is what they're talking about.
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Liz Dexter (was Broomfield)
United Kingdom
Grading comment
Thank you all
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +3regional activities
Liz Dexter (was Broomfield)
4 +2regional activites as opposed to local activities
Martin Riordan
4 +1activites than involve students from the entire area/county
Stephanie Ezrol
3the activities in the area/field of country music
Thayenga
Summary of reference entries provided
Alison MacG

Discussion entries: 1





  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
area activities
regional activites as opposed to local activities


Explanation:
The initial activites are "local activities". The participants then move on to activities that include participants from a wider area "area activites".

Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 13:45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis: From the context it seems clear to me that the sense of "area" is geographical rather than thematic here; I see it as corresponding to a district level between local and county.
1 hr
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agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
8 hrs
  -> Thank you, Tina!
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
area activities
regional activities


Explanation:
I would see this as taking part in very local school- or music school-based activities and then moving up to a regional activity which may not be based in your town.

For example - I was in my school wind band, then in the West Kent Wind Band, based in our local town's music school, then you went up to the Kent Youth Wind Band, based in another town - that's why I think this is what they're talking about.

Liz Dexter (was Broomfield)
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Thank you all

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  British Diana: Yes, at the highest level they are county-based
24 mins
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agree  Charles Davis: I think your example of the West Kent Wind Band is relevant here; "area" suggests an area larger than a town and smaller than the whole county.
1 hr
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neutral  Mike Birch: I agree with your concept, clear explanation and example. However "regional" implies to me a larger area, such as "South East", or for Ana Julia in Spain, an autonomous community, such as Aragon.
1 hr
  -> Well there aren't such things in the UK, the orchestras etc are county then national, but fair enough!
agree  Jenni Lukac (X): I go with this one. Strike up the band!
1 hr
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49 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
area activities
activites than involve students from the entire area/county


Explanation:
The text is using area to the refer to the entire county as opposed to the six local music school activitites. The key sequence is slighty rephrased to make that clear:

"The County Music Service (has several functions, #1 it) seeks to enable schools to plan, provide and deliver a … curriculum … including … specialist instrumental and vocal tuition.

(#2, it) provides an extensive programme of extra-curricular activities for young musicians known as "YYYY Youth Music".

This (programme of extra-curricular activities) includes six local Music Schools that … offer beginner and intermediate ensemble activities. (Students can then ) .. move on to (activities that work outside the six local Music schools and have the students play with other students from the whole county/area such as) … – youth orchestras, bands, jazz orchestras, string ensembles and a choir – which meet on weekday evenings in several towns (in the County YYYY).

At the highest level (of performance ability ) YYYY is represented by three ensembles that work to the most advanced standards, the YYYY Youth Orchestra, the YYYY Youth Wind Band and the YYYY Young Strings."

The "moving on" in the text means to "move up" in skill and experience in playing/performing music. With the highest move up being that of the county wide (YYYY Youth Orchestra, the YYYY Youth Wind Band and the YYYY Young Strings) which would be the most skilled of the students in the county.



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Note added at 4 hrs (2011-07-04 15:46:21 GMT)
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The internal logic of the text by concluding with the YYY Youth Orchestra, Wind Bank and Youth Strings as the highest level that represents YYY makes it clear that in this context area is being used to inidicate that there are musical ensembles that include students from different local musical schools but within YYY, which the text refers to as a County.

Stephanie Ezrol
United States
Local time: 12:45
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sheila Wilson: musicians drawn from a wider area than a single music school. Not necessarily region or county etc. (but probably does have that meaning in practice)
1 hr
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1 day 46 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
area activities
the activities in the area/field of country music


Explanation:
They can be local or reginoal or simply have to do with country music.

Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 18:45
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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Reference comments


20 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
Reference

Reference information:
I think this example is very similar to yours - the three levels involved are referred to as district, area and county.

Suffolk County Music Service (SCMS)
The County of Suffolk is a largely rural area with a total population of about 604,000. Suffolk Music Service is a ‘quasi-trading unit’ within the Education Department of Suffolk County Council. It has 80 full- and part-time peripatetic staff providing instrumental and vocal tuition, primary class music, ensemble work and music therapy in primary, middle, upper/high and special schools, together with an extensive programme of Suffolk Youth Music activities at district area and county level.
For education purposes the county is divided into three large Areas with Area offices in Bury St. Edmunds, Ipswich and Lowestoft. The Music Service follows this geographic division with a County Music Tutor for the following areas:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Y9HI0jaVm7sJ:www.y...

Alison MacG
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Asker: Thanks


Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Thuy-PTT (X)
2 days 23 hrs
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