Taking The Orff Approach To Heart: Essays & Articles from a Pioneer of Orff in America

Taking the Orff Approach to Heart: Essays & Articles from a Pioneer of Orff in America contains twenty-nine original essays and articles. It is a companion book to Making It Up As You Go, also from Brasstown Press. North American Orff educator Isabel McNeill Carley writes with skill and humor on topics from theory to practice, integrating music, speech, movement, and improvisation.
Assigned as a text in Orff Levels certification instruction, Taking The Orff Approach to Heart offers insights into teaching, childhood development, pentatonic music theory and applications, and even an illustrated children's story.

• Never-before published gems include:
• Detailed guidance on weaving speech play into the classroom, with great examples from the public domain
• A comprehensive master class for creating Orff arrangements
• How to introduce Orff instruments in the classroom, with stepwise instruction
• Gentle, age-appropriate sequences introducing music and creativity for preschool and for kindergarten
• Key ways to integrate speech, play, movement, singing, and rhythmic and melodic instruments into the music classroom
• Numerous additional essays about the joys of teaching from the heart, engaging children and adults with spontaneity and simplicity.
• An original children's story which, when read aloud, leads from speech to song.

More inside:

• How to introduce music to pre-schoolers
• How to compose and arrange for the Orff instrumentarium and classroom
• How to introduce music through speech play – with a bonus chapter of great speech materials in the public domain
• How to introduce the ostinato and build the Carpet of Sound
• How to teach and use the recorder with the Orff Approach
• Foreword by Karen Stafford PhD
• Editor's Introduction by Anne M Carley
• Biographical Note about the authorInformative essays on Carl Orff and the Orff Schulwerk, developed by Orff and his colleague Gunild Keetman
• Introductory headnotes from the editor
• The significance of the pentatonic scale in Orff education
• Extensive speech play resources
• Pentatonic scales + modes in C, F, & G
• Glossary and biographical notes
• Published resources and references
• Selected bibliography

Dip into this book for inspiration, or read it cover to cover to immerse in the world of elemental music education for all ages.