"Pieces and Processes" brings together a collection of original songs, exercises, instrumental pieces and arrangements in an attempt to provide fresh examples of elemental music. The works represent a wide variety of styles that draw upon the musical models of the Orff-Schulwerk for inspiration. Along with each piece is a detailed teaching procedure designed to give music educators a collection of instructional techniques that can be used in all aspects of their work. A ‘Process Teaching Toolbox’ organises these techniques by musical element.

Steven Calantropio, recently retired, taught public school music in River Edge, New Jersey for 31 years. During that time he has become a well-known clinician and workshop presenter both nationally and internationally. Educated at New Jersey’s William Paterson University, Ohio University, the Manhattan School of Music and the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria, Steven continues to compose, arrange, teach and write about music education. He lives in the small town of Hamburg, in scenic northern New Jersey’s Sussex County.

This title can be used from the third grade as well as at secondary schools.