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Carl Orff devoted himself to pedagogic work using visual and aural means for training musicians. Not only was he during the 1920’s a co-founder of the Günther-School for Gymnastics, Dance and Music, but also developed a comprehensive, working model for raising children to being active co-producers of music and not merely passive listeners.
This program is known as Das Orff-Schulwerk. Its mainstay lies in rhythmic awareness through dance and movement, clapping and drumming as well as in the awakening of melodic consciousness through speech, singing and numerous fantastical, in some instances, self-created instruments.
Throughout the world the Orff-Schulwerk has found a home ranging from China and Australia to South Africa and Brasil, as well as in almost all European countries and the USA. And it has enlivened the Music and Motion development movement within the schools and outside. The global network of the Orff-Schulwerk Gesellschaft at more than 50 years age guarantees the spread and propagation of Orff’s pedagogic work. Various impulse coming form the Orff-Schulwerk are effectively employed in social and integration pedagogic practise as well as in applied music therapy.
Andechs Monastery, within the framework of promoting musical growth for the future, offers teachers, religious colleagues and interested lay persons the possibility to confront the Orff-Schuilwerk. In co-operation with Prof. Dr Reinhold Wirsching of the Salzburg-Orff-Institute, the Andechs Orff-Schulwerk Course was given birth. Every year since 1998 the participants of the Andechs Schulwerk-Course are offered the theme: Music and Dance in Context with Religious Upbringing.
ORFF Schooling Courses
Topics: - Ideas for organizing masses and celebrations
- Song and dance in religious education
- Elements and forms of a sacred dance
- Stories and picture books as stimuli for musical and stage design
- Forms and possibilities of elementary music-making
- Playing Orff instruments
- Song creation and accompaniment
- Social learning through music and action games
Management: Robert Grüner, Munich Siglinde Hartl, Salzburg
Target Group: Teachers and educators, religious instructors, employees of ecclesiastical organizations
Course starts: Friday, October 22, 2004 at 12.30 p.m. (communal lunch) Course ends: Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 2.00 p.m. (after lunch)
Informations: ORFF IN ANDECHS e.V., Bergstr. 2, 82346 Andechs Phone: +49 - (0)8152 - 376-271 Fax: +49 - (0)8152 - 365-239
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