Taking the Orff Approach to Heart

<p><strong>Taking the Orff Approach to Heart: Essays & Articles from a Pioneer of Orff in America</strong> contains twenty-nine original essays and articles. It is a companion book to <em>Making It Up As You Go</em> also from Brasstown Press. </p><p>North American Orff educator Isabel McNeill Carley writes with skill and humor on topics from theory to practice integrating music speech movement and improvisation.</p><p>?Assigned as a text in <strong>Orff Levels certification</strong> instruction <em>Taking The Orff Approach to Heart</em> offers insights into teaching childhood development pentatonic music theory and applications and even an illustrated children's story.</p><p><strong>?Never-before published gems include:</strong></p><ul><li>?Detailed guidance on weaving speech play into the classroom with great examples from the public domain?</li><li>A comprehensive master class for creating Orff arrangements?</li><li>How to introduce Orff instruments in the classroom with stepwise instruction?</li><li>Gentle age-appropriate sequences introducing music and creativity for preschool and for kindergarten?</li><li>Key ways to integrate speech play movement singing and rhythmic and melodic instruments into the music classroom</li><li>And numerous additional essays about the joys of teaching from the heart engaging children and adults with spontaneity and simplicity.</li><li>There's even an original children's story which when read aloud leads from speech to song.</li></ul><p><strong>More inside:</strong></p><ul><li>How to introduce music to pre-schoolers</li><li>How to compose and arrange for the Orff instrumentarium and classroom</li><li>How to introduce music through speech play - with a bonus chapter of great speech materials in the public domain</li><li>How to introduce the ostinato and build the Carpet of Sound</li><li>How to teach and use the recorder with the Orff Approach?</li><li>Foreword by Karen Stafford PhD </li><li>?Editor's Introduction by Anne M Carley</li><li>?Biographical Note about the author</li><li>?Informative essays on Carl Orff and the Orff Schulwerk developed by Orff and his colleague Gunild Keetman</li><li>?Introductory headnotes from the editor</li><li>?The significance of the pentatonic scale in Orff education</li><li>?Extensive speech play resources?</li><li>Pentatonic scales + modes in C F & G</li><li>?Glossary and biographical notes</li><li>?Published resources and references</li><li>?Selected bibliography</li></ul><p><strong>The Table of Contents includes:</strong></p><p>1. The Case for Creativity</p><p>2. That Lovely Two-Headed Betsy Higginbottam</p><p>3. Create or Perform</p><p>4. Music Plus: Five- and Six-Year-Olds in the Classroom</p><p>5. Playing With Our Materials: Speech Play</p><p>6. Speech Play Resources</p><p>7. At the Foot of the Mountains Or How Mrs. Dow Made a Song</p><p>8. Introducing Ostinati with Murray Volume I</p><p>9. Tips for Teachers of the Recorder</p><p>10. How To Introduce the Orff Ensemble</p><p>11. Practicing Some Neglected Ensemble Techniques</p><p>12. Master Class: Composing and Arranging for the Orff Classroom</p><p>13. Teaching Music to Preschoolers</p><p>14. Concerning Rabbits</p><p>15. The Next Ten Years: A View from the Early Day</p><p>16. On Patterns in A Music Gestalt</p><p>17. First Encountering Gunild Keetman</p><p>18. Improvisation Makes It Happen</p><p>19. The Inclusive Art of Music</p><p>20. The Essential Role of the Recorder</p><p>21. Using the Recorder: The Orff Approach</p><p>22. On Setting a Program's Goals</p><p>23. The Schulwerk's Origins and Early Music</p><p>24. The Orff Approach in Church</p><p>25. On Being Simple-Minded</p><p>26. My Theory of Education</p><p>27. Educating All of the Human Mind</p><p>28. Little Is Possible Without Healthy Roots</p><p>29. Imparted Grace: The Central Role of Music in Education</p><p> </p>