• The Orff Schulwerk, or simply the Orff Approach, is a developmental approach used in music education. It combines music, movement, drama, and speech into...
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    his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education. Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was born in Munich on 10 July 1895, the son of Paula Orff (née...
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  • Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title...
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    Machine "American Orff-Schulwerk Association". Aosa.org. Retrieved 1 November 2011. Keetman, Gunild; Orff, Carl (1958). Orff-Schulwerk Music for Children...
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    emphasizes the benefits of physical instruction and response to music. The Orff Schulwerk approach to music education leads students to develop their music abilities...
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  • divorcing in 1953. Gertrud was involved in the development of Carl Orff's Schulwerk (School Work) and tested it in public schools in the United States...
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    leaders of the Orff Schulwerk when it began to take hold in the United States in the 1960s. As a co-founder of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA)...
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  • Gassenhauer (category Compositions by Carl Orff)
    (pronounced [ˈɡasn̩ˌhaʊ̯ɐ]), is a short piece from Orff Schulwerk, developed during the 1920s by Carl Orff with long-time collaborator Gunild Keetman. As...
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  • American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA) is an organization of American music educators dedicated to utilizing, advancing and preserving Orff-Schulwerk, a...
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  • was the primary originator of the approach to teaching music known as Orff Schulwerk. Keetman was responsible for most of the actual teaching that was done...
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  • Trionfi is a trilogy of cantatas by German composer Carl Orff: Carmina Burana Catulli Carmina Trionfo di Afrodite Carmina Burana is by far the most famous...
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  • Curriculum in American Music Education: Contributions of Dalcroze, Kodaly, and Orff. Washington: Music Educators National Conference. Geoffry Russell-Smith (November...
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  • teaching method, the Orff Schulwerk Orff Schulwerk encompasses the Orff instruments and teaching methods for children The Orff, a fictional alien species...
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  • influenced later music education methods, including the Kodály method, Orff Schulwerk and Suzuki Method. Dalcroze Eurhythmics teaches concepts of rhythm,...
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    of the tamborim compare with those of the small frame drums of the Orff Schulwerk. The tamborim is used in many genres of Brazilian music. It is most...
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    "O Fortuna" is a movement in Carl Orff's 1935–36 cantata Carmina Burana. It begins the opening and closing sections, both titled "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi"...
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  • You Sing, Sing What You Play". American Orff-Schulwerk Association. Retrieved 2023-02-08. V, Zach; erGraaff. "Orff Rhythm Syllables: Do They Exist?". Dynamic...
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    chromatic, keyboard instruments for children, such as ones used in the Orff Schulwerk, may be diatonic or pentatonic. Despite the name, keyboard instruments...
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    Trionfo di Afrodite (category Cantatas by Carl Orff)
    Triumph of Aphrodite) is a cantata written in 1951 by the German composer Carl Orff. It is the third and final installment in the Trionfi musical triptych, which...
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  • Slumbers" "Now the Heavens Start to Whisper" The American edition of the Orff Schulwerk book Music for Children sets a carol to the tune of "Suo Gân", with...
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  • passionate educator, he was a pupil of Carl Orff and was influential in popularizing the Orff Schulwerk methodology within North America. From 1957 to...
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  • film's score by Hans Zimmer is a theme based on Gassenhauer from Carl Orff's Schulwerk. This theme, combined with a voiceover spoken by Arquette, is an homage...
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    Catulli Carmina (category Cantatas by Carl Orff)
    Catulli Carmina (Songs of Catullus) is a cantata by Carl Orff dating from 1940–1943. He described it as ludi scaenici (scenic plays). The work mostly sets...
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  • publication Orff Echo. She worked as an Orff specialist at the Philadelphia School, taught at Chestnut Hill College, and taught in the Orff-Schulwerk Teachers...
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    thunder machine The chromatic tenor xylophones are instruments of the Orff-Schulwerk. Since they are not normally used in the percussion section of the symphony...
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    ideas are found in later established music teaching methods, such as Orff-Schulwerk, Kodály, and, Dalcroze-Eurthymics. Music education, primarily vocal...
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    Part of a series on Music education Major methodologies Kodály method Orff Schulwerk Dalcroze Eurhythmics Suzuki method Instructional settings School band...
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    publicly in 1958. In the twentieth century, Carl Orff used the recorder as part of his Orff-Schulwerk didactic approach. His five-volume Musik für Kinder...
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    definite-pitched instruments in elementary music programs, such as Orff Schulwerk, where their sound quality, pitch stability and rapid tuning are assets...
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  • Children's Concerts in 1946 and later becoming a proponent of the Orff Approach (Orff Schulwerk, also called Music for Children) in music education in the Ottawa...
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