The Orff approach to music education weaves together storytelling, songs, movement/dance, and instrumental play in ensemble groups. It is centred on the playful exploration of the elements of music and children are given lots of opportunities to improvise and express their ideas creatively. Children have lots of experiences of successful collaborative music making. Check out what these classes have looked like in 2016 at Muritai School.
Sunday 26 June 2016
Using Cups as Graphic Notation in Senior Music
The different sized cups represent crotchets and quaver beats. The conductor creates different rhythms by moving the cups around and changes the patterns as the instrument players 'read' the music/rhythmic patterns. We have explored improvising on top of these rhythmic patterns also, which is a lot of fun.
Instrumental Play in Junior Music
We have been exploring different rhythms on the instruments and playing bass lines to our songs.
Saturday 25 June 2016
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