About Us
Calgary Orff Chapter of Carl Orff Canada is based in Calgary, Alberta. We are 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.
About Orff Music Education
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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.
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Carl Orff
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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 Schulwerk 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.
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.
About Calgary Orff Board 2023 - 2024
ExecutivePresident: Sarah McCune
Vice-President: Andrea Bohan Treasurer: Sarah-Jane Leslie Secretary: Becki Leipert Past-President: Tanya Chow |
Board MembersMembership Secretary:
Becki Leipert Publicity: Breanne Robinson Members at Large: Sarah Blackman Carolyn Hatt Brett Kowalchuk Wilma Van Es |