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.
Summer Teacher Training
Orff-Schulwerk Level 1
The Calgary Orff Chapter in partnership with Mount Royal University Conservatory is offering Orff-Schulwerk Level 1 this summer!
Classes will run on Mondays - Fridays from July 9 - 20, 2018. Please visit MRU Conservatory's program's webpage for more information and to register.
Find a step-by-step registration guide and scholarship information on our Chapter Courses page.
The brochure for Calgary Orff Chapter's Orff-Schulwerk Level 1 is available here.
The Calgary Orff Chapter in partnership with Mount Royal University Conservatory is offering Orff-Schulwerk Level 1 this summer!
Classes will run on Mondays - Fridays from July 9 - 20, 2018. Please visit MRU Conservatory's program's webpage for more information and to register.
Find a step-by-step registration guide and scholarship information on our Chapter Courses page.
The brochure for Calgary Orff Chapter's Orff-Schulwerk Level 1 is available here.
Our Next Workshop
Early-Bird Subscription now available for the 2018-2019 season!
Register by July 31, 2018 to save! More information available on our Workshop Registration page.
Register by July 31, 2018 to save! More information available on our Workshop Registration page.
Sing, Dance, Drum & Play
Presented by Chris Judah-Lauder
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Early-bird registration is now available!
For more information, see Upcoming Workshops.
Presented by Chris Judah-Lauder
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Early-bird registration is now available!
For more information, see Upcoming 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.
