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What is Orff Schulwerk? |
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Orff-Schulwerk is an active approach to music and movement education. Students of all ages and abilities explore, imitate, improvise and create their own material through singing, expressive speech, playing instruments, and creative movement. The Approach also recommends using music that is considered to be elemental. Elemental music is pattern-based music built on natural speech and body rhythms, familiar melodic patterns, and simple forms that can be learned, created, understood, and performed without extensive technical or theoretical musical training." - from "Defining Elemental Music" by Nick Wild, Past-President of NE/AOSA and AOSA Endorsed Instructor.
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To read "Defining Elemental Music" click here, and to learn more about Orff-Schulwerk and how it focuses on 21st century learning objectives, check out the following articles:
Orff-Schulwerk: What It Is and What It Is Not from a talk by Wilhelm Keller, then Co-Director of the Orff Institute, at Dana School in Wellesley, MA, 1969.
What Is Orff-Schulwerk? by Nick Wild, Past-President of NE/AOSA
Rationale for the Orff-Schulwerk Learning Model: AOSA document
Background of the Pedagogy included in workshop notes by BethAnn Hepburn, AOSA Endorsed Instructor
Orff-Schulwerk: What It Is and What It Is Not from a talk by Wilhelm Keller, then Co-Director of the Orff Institute, at Dana School in Wellesley, MA, 1969.
What Is Orff-Schulwerk? by Nick Wild, Past-President of NE/AOSA
Rationale for the Orff-Schulwerk Learning Model: AOSA document
Background of the Pedagogy included in workshop notes by BethAnn Hepburn, AOSA Endorsed Instructor