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.
Monday, 5 December 2016
NZ School of Music Day at Eastern Hutt
Earlier this term the senior Orff group at Muritai came to Eastern Hutt School to take part in a morning of ensemble playing with performance students from the NZ School of Music. We played some rhythm games and workshopped two pieces as a group, children on the barred instruments and percussion and the NZSM students on double bass, trombone, violin, classical guitar, piano, and voice.
Junior Music Terms 3 and 4
Below are some pics from the junior music classes in Term 3 and 4. We have done lots of creative instrument work, improvising, and rhythm work. We spent time this term creating our own jungle themed music and a jungle animal movement piece, which the children loved! We worked with lots of different poems and songs including Dr Knickerbocker Number 9, Pease Porridge Hot, Here is the Beehive, Dr Foster, Funga Alafia, Alice the Camel and many more. We have made a number of music maps where we have used hand gestures (simple solfege) and drawn pictures on paper to show the direction of pitch in songs. We have also done lots of rhythm work using the rhythms of language in simple poems and using cups to notate simple rhythmic patterns (whole size and half size cups to show crotchets and quavers). We also played a few simple ensemble arrangements on the instruments. The classes have been full of energy, joy, and enthusiasm for music and movement making.
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| Music and movement with untuned and tuned percussion |
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| Conducting and exploring different dynamics using hand gestures |
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| More conduting |
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| Playing xylophone set up for C pentatonic |
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| Improvising and rhythm play |
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| Soprano glockenspiel set up for improvising on C pentatonic |
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| Rhythm improvising: Dr Foster went to Glocester in a shower of rain! |
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| Creative music making. |
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| Dr Foster. |
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| More Dr Foster. |
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| Creative music play - Metallaphone set up for improvising on C pentatonic |
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| Using different size cups to represent different rhythms (crotchets and quavers) |
Senior Orff Group Term 4
This is a recording of a piece in progress! We had just had our first two lessons on recorders and we also wanted to try out what the viola sounded like playing the melody line. This piece was put together very quickly by the group in only two lessons.
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Junior Music
The owls fly round the town while the church bells make their music.
Beautiful expressive playing!
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.
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