Play, Sing & Dance: An Introduction to Orff Schulwerk

"Ideas, like all things, grow old". So opens this overview to the dynamic approach to music education known as Orff Schulwerk. In this comprehensive look at the many facets of this timeless practice, author Doug Goodkin hopes to re-imageine its import in the lives of children, schools and culture at large in contemporary times. Those new to Orff Schulwerk will get a glimpse of its basic tenets and broad scope, while those already teaching it will find both reminders of its generative deas and details of its practice.

CONTENIDO

-Foreword
-Introduction: The challenge of Orff Schulwerk
-What is Orff Schulwerk?
-The story of the Schulwerk

I. Orff media
1. Games: A child's curriculum
2. Musica poetica: The word in Orff Schulwerk
3. What! Me sing?
4. Sing sing sing
5. Folk dance in the music classroom
6. To move and be moved
7. Dance in the Orff Schulwerk
8. Movement in the music classroom
9. Body percussion in the music classroom
10. An introduction to Keith Terry's "Body Music"
11. Bells on her toes: Percussion in the music class
12. The Orff instruments: A child-sized orchestra
13. The role of the recorder in the Schulwerk
14. The play's the thing: Drama in the music education
15. Drama program notes
16. Celebrations Orff Schulwerk style

II. Elemental style
17. Rhytmic vocalization
18. Solfège in the Orff Schulwerk
19. The pentatonic scale
20. The drone: A basic foundation
21. The ostinato
22. Music for children: The volumes
23. The volumes: A logical progression

-Afterword
-Appendix