Musica Activa: An Approach to Music Education

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Arreglos de / Arranged by: Judy Sills

This is an adaption of Musica Viva 2 · Expression rhythmique (first published in French) and focuses on the element of rhythm within the pedagogical framework of the Active Method, based on the principles of Carl Orff. Preface:ABCs of the Orff Pedagogy · Notes for Teachers: Rhythm · The Ontogenesis of Rhythm · Verbal Expression: Establishing Rhythm · Elaborating the Rhythm · Poetry as Rhythm · Speech Choir · Rhythmic Imitation: Single-level Imitation ·Four-level Imitation · Rhythmic Canon: The Mini-Canon · The Traditional Rhythmic Canon · Question and Answer Technique: Verbal Expression · Body Percussion · Non-Pitched Percussion · Pitched Percussion · Rhythmic Rondo: VerbalExpression · Body Percussion · Non-Pitched Percussion · Pitched Percussion · Vocal Expression- Ostinato: Layering · Accompaniment to Text · Accomppaniment to Songs · Rhythmic Reading Games: Active Rhythmic Reading · Reading Music· Improving Rhythmic Skills · Rhythmic Creativity: Improvisation within a Metric Framework · Aleatoric Music · Movement: Actions and Rhythm · Chorporal Expression · Folk Dances · Uf Dem Anger · International Code for MovementNotation · Appendix: Instrumental Ranges · Order of Instruments on Score, Abbreviations and Symbols · Biography of Professor Wuytack ans Lists of Publications