The Orff Pedagogy

Teaching children music through their natural instinct of exploration through play

Musical concepts including: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and creative expression are learned through singing, speech/chanting, dance, movement, drama, & playing of pitched and unpitched instruments.

Improvisation, composition & a child's natural sense of play are encouraged. Inclusion in the form of facilitating growth and learning, while also supporting the needs and comfort level of individual students is another tenet. Orff organically integrates art, poetry, language arts, math, history and other areas of culture and study. Theory is taught in a way that embraces creativity, using the familiar to make it accessible, helping students connect with and understand musicality on a cellular level.

The Orff approach involves scaffolding lessons by building up complex music out of simple elements such as echo, call and response, and repeated patterns called ostinatos, where each student has their own unique and valued role. Improvisation is also a fundamental part of the process, and students are frequently encouraged to create their own variations and make contributions to pieces, allowing them to develop collaboration skills and individual creative expression. In the typical Orff class, students may be singing, playing instruments, clapping, chanting, or playing a music-related game. Lessons frequently involve the integration of other arts, including dance or movement, drama, and visual art. Orff Schulwerk embraces the music and dance of cultures around the world and teaches diverse artistic traditions not as fixed artifacts but as fresh and evolving expressions of human creativity.

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