The Department of Music will again offer Orff Schulwerk teacher training courses during summer 2001. Along with his colleague Gunild Keetman, Carl Orff developed an approach to music and dance education based on the central idea that music, movement, and speech form an inseparable unity. In Orff Schulwerk, improvisation and composition are important.
Children explore sound using spoken words, melodies, and accompaniments.
Movement and dance are integral to the whole process. Three different levels of instruction may be taken in successive summers. Each level provides instruction in movement, recorder playing, literature study, and pedagogical techniques. I is open to music graduates and to teachers with significant musical training. Certification is awarded on satisfactory completion of all three levels.