What is the Calgary Orff Chapter?
The Calgary Orff Chapter is a chapter of Carl Orff Canada and is dedicated to providing high quality professional development opportunities for music teachers. Through our workshops and courses we aim to help improve the quality of music education in both Calgary and the surrounding areas.
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Subscription Memberships are now available for the 2018-2019 season. Register for all three workshops and save!
More information available on our Workshop Registration page.
More information available on our Workshop Registration page.
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2018-2019 Workshop Registration Form
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Build Your Own Taiko
Pre-Workshop Activity Paula and Holger will be offering a tutorial on how to make an affordable Taiko-style drum using garbage cans and your own set of bachi (taiko drumsticks). All necessary materials will be provided. Date: Friday March 8, 2019, at 7:00 pm Location: #100 - 403 31 Ave NE Material Cost: $35 for a drum and a pair of bachi RSVP: Fill out the online form by February 9, 2019. https://goo.gl/forms/AJ1YzPzc6sEfQrtA3 |
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Taiko and Song
Presented by Holger Mauthe and Paula Midori-Niekar Saturday, March 9, 2019 Workshop Description Taiko (Japanese drums) is an engaging, eye-catching rhythmic experience, that can be taught to all ages and skill levels. Captivating Taiko rhythms enhanced with simple and fun choreography will let the participants feel the music to their core and develop their coordination and inner sense of rhythm. In this course we will be teaching traditional Japanese songs, rhythm games, and movement, that you can use to engage your children while they learn about Taiko drumming technique and traditions. You will be a Taiko student for the day, so be ready to move! Please come with comfortable clothing, and comfortable shoes or barefoot. You will be singing, dancing, moving, and drumming! This workshop will also include a demonstration by MRU Taiko Students. For more information, please see Chapter Workshops. |
What is Orff Schulwerk?
Orff Schulwerk, an approach to music education developed by Carl Orff, is experiential and holistic and is for all types of learners, aural, visual and kinesthetic. In Orff Schulwerk, children learn in an active way, where imitation and exploration lead to improvisation and music literacy. Speech, song, movement and instruments are the vehicles used to teach rhythm, melody, form, harmony and timbre. Carl Orff defined the ideal music for children as “never music alone, but music connected with movement, dance, and speech – not to be [merely] listened to, meaningful only in active participation.”
Orff Schulwek is built on the idea that a child must be able to feel and make rhythms and melodies before being called on to read and write music. Orff believed that a child internalized and developed ownership of a concept by experiencing the concept before it is put into words. “Experience first, intellectualize second.” In the same way that a child learns to speak before learning to read and write, he or she must have a musical language in which to feel at home before technical knowledge is introduced.
Through pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments, movement, games, singing, and rhythmic exploration, the child learns of his own innate musical talents in a way that is immediately successful and rewarding.
Orff Schulwek is built on the idea that a child must be able to feel and make rhythms and melodies before being called on to read and write music. Orff believed that a child internalized and developed ownership of a concept by experiencing the concept before it is put into words. “Experience first, intellectualize second.” In the same way that a child learns to speak before learning to read and write, he or she must have a musical language in which to feel at home before technical knowledge is introduced.
Through pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments, movement, games, singing, and rhythmic exploration, the child learns of his own innate musical talents in a way that is immediately successful and rewarding.
