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The 'Orff' approach

American Edition

Murray Edition (UK)

Hall/Walter Edition (Canada/America)

author: Ruth Pollock Hamm

A choral speech collection

Instrumentation: children's choir
Publisher: Schott Music Corporation
Edition: score
Language: English
Series: Orff-Schulwerk - Music for Children (American Edition)
34 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-60001-0
Order number: SMC 15

Price: 9,95 €

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Description:

A collection of verses by respected children's authors for use as choral speech within the junior school. The book contains some metric poetic examples and also lessons which follow the meter of spoken prose. Included in the suggestions are ideas for movement, instrumental accompaniements and proposals for related art, drama and listening activities.

Content:

E. Farjeon: When Hannibal Crossed the Alps
Anonymous: Old Woman on a Broom
Proverbs: Try, Try Again
Anonymous: John Cook
J. Reeves: Giant Thunder
R. Merrick: The Hag
L. Sprague Mitchell: It is Raining
Proverbs: Quarrels? No! Just Friendships
H.G. Gale: The Icicle
O. Nash: The Wendigo
R. Pollock Hamm: Silting, Linting and Klee
T. Hardy: Men who March Away
E. Field: The Telephone
A. Guiterman: Qwerty-u-i-op
K. Chukovsky: Crocodile

Author

Carl Orff was born in Munich on 10 July 1895. Already in 1900 he was taking piano, cello and organ lessons. In the same year his first printed work (Eiland, ein Sang vom Chiemsee) was published, and he took his first systematic courses of music theory. In 1912 Orff composed his first choral work (Also sprach Zarathustra) and an early opera (Gisei, das Opfer, completed in 1913). ...more

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