The Orff Echo is the national, peer-reviewed quarterly journal and philosophical voice of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. Our mission is to demonstrate the value of Orff Schulwerk and promote its widespread use; to support the professional development of our members; and to inspire and advocate for the creative potential of all learners. Non-members may contact the editor for information.
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List of Orff Echo Articles
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1989
Articles in this issue include:
- Why Solfege?
- Panel in Print: Music in Early Childhood Education
- Interview with Avon Gillespie
- The Christmas Story in Australia
- Orff and Piaget: Partners in Learning
- Dance and Movement in the Guenther-Schule
- Framework for Improvisation
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1989
Articles in this issue include:
- Teaching Orff Schulwerk in China
- Teaching Orff Schulwerk in China
- Experiencing Music Through English Country Dances
- Musisoi ry: Music Education in Finland
- Teaching from Models
- Folklore is Alive and Well: A Celebration of Multicultural Children’s Games and Songs
- Teaching the Musics of Many Cultures;
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1989
Articles in this issue include:
- Music-making Children of Africa
- Introducing Jazz in the Classroom, Part. 2
- Poetry in the Music Room
- Reflections on Movement
- Interview with Isa Bergsohn
- Ferry Me Across the Water
- Early Childhood Unmapped Territory or Settled Terrain
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1989
Articles in this issue include:
- Beginning Classroom Experiences in Jazz
- Creativity: Exploring the Possibilities
- Kopeyia, Ghana: Living Schulwerk
- GAP: The Gunn Arts Project
- The “Y” Theory Or the Case for Holistic Learning
- Form: ABA;
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1988
Articles in this issue include:
- The Choice is Ours
- A Night in Africa
- Looking at Japanese Haiku
- Music for the Harvest Season
- The Critics Speak
- On Magic
- Finding Books on Movement
- Funding Music Projects with Mini-Grants
- To Feed My People: The Coming of the Corn
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1988
Articles in this issue include:
- Can We Make Up Something Today?
- The American Negro Spiritual – An Elemental Style
- A Day With the Drum Makers of Cochiti
- The Makers of Drums
- Sound and Silence
- The Rondo Train
- A Magna Charta of American Music Education: Words of 1838 Still Meaningful in 1988
- An Interview with Alice Parker
- The Music Class According to Murphy’s Law
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A canon to Dance
This idea for a movement canon based on the melody of Frere Jacques comes from the Summer 1988 issue of The Orff Echo.
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1988
Articles in this issue include:
- Beyond Sixth Grade
- Juvenile Lyre: The First Secular School Song Book in America
- A Recorder Consort Goes to School
- Singing By Ear
- Colonial Music for Contemporary Children;
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1988
Articles in this issue include:
- The Creek Walk: Integration of Schulwerk
- Earth Science, Creative Writing
- A Summer in Bali
- Movement Activities: A Possible Sequence
- Begin With Words!
- South Africa Sends a Song
- Progression of Movement Forms: Suggested Framework for Teaching Sequence
- It’s a Small World After All!
- The Language of Spirituals
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1987
Articles in this issue include:
- Orff Schulwerk and the Artists-in-Residence
- Mr. Doolittle and the Four-Legged Critters
- Family Music Activities in Australia
- Forgotten Magic: Part IV
- The Christmas-Hanukah Dilemma: A Panel in Print
- Learning Not to Skip
- Meditation On Method
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1987
Articles in this issue include:
- Getting Started
- Searching for the Vein of Gold: Finding a Story to Tell
- Report on Project Outreach
- Forgotten Magic: Part III
- The Wave Hill Revels: A Community Celebration
- The Ozarks: Folklore Treasury
- Professor Liao: Preserving China’s Musical Traditions with Orff’s Schulwerk
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1987
Articles in this issue include:
- A First Visit to the U.S.
- Orff Schulwerk: An Integrated Foundation
- Pageantry in the Elementary School
- Interview with Michael Lane
- Music/Art Trip to Storm King Art Cente
- Orff-Schulwerk in an Institutional Setting
- Forgotten Magic – Part ll;
- Hearing + Listening = Moving and Feeling;
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1987
Articles in this issue include:
- Traditional Appalachian Music: Resources for Orff Teachers
- Movement: Elemental Style;
- Charles Moorman: Have Xylophone, Will Travel
- Forgotten Magic: Part 1 – A Series on Ancient Primitive Instruments
- Fleas and Flies
- Interview with Jack Langstaff
- The importance of Silence
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1986
Articles in this issue include:
- Point and Counterpoint – Anna Lechner
- Brontosaurus in a Chorus
- The Christmas-Hanukah Dilemma: A Challenge
- For the Classroom: Folkdance
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1986
Articles in this issue include:
- A View of Schulwerk in Tokyo
- Orff Schulwerk and the Adolescent
- Sabbatical in Switzerland: Institut Jacques-Dalcroze
- Needed: Listening Therapists for the Aurally Retarded
- Cumulative Songs
- The World According to Mother Goose: Music Learning Through Play
- Self Concept in a Music Classroom
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1986
Articles in this issue include:
- Interview with Robert M. Abramson
- Materials for the Classroom
- Rediscovering Orff’s First Xylophone
- Only the Shadow Knows…
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