Carl Orff devoted much of his life to the development of a philosophy of "Music for Children", based on his belief that music is the natural outcome of speech, rhythm and movement. His ideas and pioneering work have had a major influence on music and dance education throughout the world and today that work continues under the guidance of leading teachers and educators in many countries. The five basic German volumes of "Music for Children" by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman were published between 1950 and 1954. Editions have since been published in Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ghana, Great Britain (including a special Welsh edition), Greece, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin-America, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the USA. In 1952 the first edition in translation appeared an English language adaptation by Doreen Hall and Arnold Walter for their Canadian and American students. A few years later, Margaret Murray independently developed a version (1957-1966), essentially to fulfil the needs of United Kingdom teachers. Inevitably the considerable growth of Orff-Schulwerk in the United States led to the publication of the American Edition (1977) to satisfy the requirements of a different educational system and national heritage. Orff-Schulwerk: Music for Children has proved itself to be a stimulating source of material for music teaching. Carl Orff's fundamental educational ideas have revitalized music education in nursery schools, at all levels of primary and secondary education and in special music schools, based on the concepts that: - music, dance and language are inter-related and animated through rhythm. - when children discover, invent, improvise and compose, their experience of music is intensified. These creative activities are complementary to those of interpreting and listening to music. - all who take part are encouraged to contribute, not only vocally but also instrumentally. - the Orff approach to music education is many sided; it is concerned with practical music-making, it provides fundamental experiences and it lays the foundation for a comprehensive musical training. - movement games and activities for body awareness in space, time and flow, lead to movement improvisation and dance forms. - music and dance have been notated in many different ways in history. Various ways of writing down sounds and music, as well as playing from and interpreting different kinds of sources are being explored. Today, countless teachers and institutions are using these ideas. More and more teachers look for ways of involving their students in active music making. In particular, they seek to challenge their pupils' creativity by the use of music, dance and speech - as media of human expression - as a foundation of all education. A prerequisite for work in Orff-Schulwerk is the artistic and pedagogical training of teachers. The Orff Institute was founded in 1961 as a Department of the 'Mozarteum', in Salzburg, Austria. Training offered includes a four-year diploma course, a two-year post-graduate course, and a one-year-course in English. At the opening of the Orff Institute in Salzburg in 1963, Carl Orff ended his speech with a quotation from Schiller: 'I have done my part, now do yours.' That challenge has been taken up by teachers worldwide. Murray Edition English adaption, with additional material, by Margaret Murray. Besed on, and containing all the rhythmic and instrumental material from the main five volumes of the original German edition. Contents of this fourth volume: Songs and pieces using the full range of the aeolian, dorian and phrygian modes. Accompaniements are founded on drone bass with the later addition of simple chords.

Aeolian: King Herold and the cock
Short pieces for barred percussion instruments
Ostinato exercises for barred instruments
Evening red and morning grey
More sayings
Pieces to be played on all types of instruments
Weather sayings
The keys of Canterbury
Pieces for recorder
Deux chansons: J'ai vu le loup, le renard, le lièvre
C'était Anne de Bretagne
Marmotte
Two pieces
Gjeite Lok-Norwegian goatherd's song
Piece for recorders
Amor, amor
The bridge
The nightjar
The cuckoo's fallen to his death
A babe is born
Dorian: Connemara lullaby
Short pieces for barred instruments
Pieces for recorders
Joyous Easter hymn
Pastorals
C'est le mai
Dance
From the Song of Solomon
There is no rose of such virtue
Two prayers: For himility
Evening pryer
Yonder sits a fair young damsel
Dance
The virgin unspottes
Phrygian: Mother, oh Mother, so hungry am I
Melodies for singing to a xylophone accompaniment
For recorder and drum
Evening pryer
Three dances
Mary at the Cross
Ascension
The Tonic And Leading Note Triads: What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
Pieces for barred instruments
Ostinato pieces
When Mary thro' the garden went
Malcolm Laddie
Dance
The fair lady
The Tonic, Mediant And Other Triads: Instrumental piece
The jolly ploughboy
Piece
Studies in triads (for recorders or other instruments)
Decoration of the third
The heaby clouds are blown this was
Ostinato pieces
Three angels are singing
The coasts of high Barbary