American Orff-Schulwerk Association (2018). More on Orff Schulwerk. Retrieved from https://aosa.org/about/more-on-orff-schulwerk/
American Orff-Schulwerk Association (2018). Watch children in Orff Schulwerk classrooms. Retrieved from https://aosa.org/about/what-is-orff-schulwerk/watch-children-inorff- schulwerk-classrooms/ Carl Orff was a German composer, conductor, and pedagogue known widely for composing Carmina Burana and his pedagogical method Orff-Schulwerk. Gunild Keetman was a composer, performer, and teacher who collaborated with Orff and helped spread Orff-Schulwerk, particularly in the instrumental area. They created Orff-Schulwerk as another way for all children to be actively creating music through singing, percussion instruments, speech, and movement. Orff’s approach is meant for all learners and is intended to help them discover their artistic potential; key components of this method are integration, performance, and music literacy. Integration combines all aspects of the performing arts (movement, music, speech, drama) to encourage creativity; performance is a way for learners to refine and share their created material; and music literacy aims at the importance of being able to read music notation. An aim associated with Orff-Schulwerk is for learners to be spontaneously playing with music in a way that occurs naturally and unconsciously. The learning processes are preliminary play, imitation, exploration, and improvisation – these allow learners to play with music using elements of music and movement. Some activities associated with this are playing Orff instruments to a song the students wrote themselves or simply playing a hand slapping game (like Down by the Banks). Some practical uses of Orff-Schulwerk would be creating tunes and improvising on said tunes in the music classroom using Orff instruments and recorders. Another practical use would be a method that allows students to learn how to read music. Some advantages of this pedagogical method are that it allows students to create and improvise in a safe environment. It also helps with the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills and the ability to transfer those items from context to context. Some challenges are that learning notation through instruments rather than by rote singing may be more difficult for students because the sound production is not as internalized. Comments are closed.
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