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, Winter 1986
Articles in this issue include:
- Medieval Music and Dance or What You Can Do With Only One Line – An Exploration of Performance Possibilities of Monophonic Melodies;
- Orff Schulwerk in Taiwan
- Applying Research Findings
- Elemental Thoughts About Orff Schulwerk
- For the Classroom: Southern Blues
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1985
Articles in this issue include:
- Orff Schulwerk in the U.S.: Our Expanding Challenges
- Microcomputer Music-Making: An Introduction
- Interview with Jos Wuytack
- Inter-generational Programs;
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the Orff Echo, Summer 1985
Articles in this issue include:
- Music, Movement, and the Learning Disabled Child
- Interview with Daniel Helldén
- Establishing Goals for First Grade
- Orff Schulwerk and the Computer
- Percussion Panels
- Movement as the Essence;
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1985
Articles in this issue include:
- Understanding the Limits of the Human Voice: Singing Without Breakdowns
- Music IS Basic
- Come Riddle Me, Riddle Me Ree
- Recorders in the Orff Approach: Moving, Singing, Playing, Improvising
- Our French Connections: La Pedagogie Orff
- Curriculum Development in Fairfax County, Virginia
- Orff Schulwerk in a Summer Day Camp: A Success Story;
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1985
Articles in this issue include:
- A Question of Discipline
- Let’s Make Musicians Out of Musical Children
- Interview with Hermann Regner (with Verena Maschat)
- Vocables from Your Highway Map
- Beyond Rubber Bands, Paper Plates, and Bottle Caps
- For the Classroom – The Cuckoo
- Hang In There – Things Can Get Better
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1984
Articles in this issue include:
- Applying Principles of Good Singing in Teaching Children
- Interview with William Amoaku
- The Ethnic Ensemble: an Experience in Integration
- Orff-Schulwerk in Australia
- Rainbows
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1984
Articles in this issue include:
- Guest Editorial: Orff and the World of Nature
- The Artistic Dimension in the Development of Our Children
- Interview with Barbara Haselbach
- The Autistic child
- Conference Panel: The Schulwerk in Retrospect
- Kites
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1984
Articles in this issue include:
- Focus on the Gifted
- Olympic Themes for the Classroom
- Interview with Margaret Murray
- Thoughtful Voices
- Purcell in Kenya
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1984
Articles in this issue include:
- Song Making Experiences for Two- Four Year Olds
- Interview with Minna Ronnefeld
- The Sacred Harp Tradition
- Orff with the Old and Orff with the New
- The Orff Society of Great Britain
- There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly and The Jolly Miller, (arrangements by Margaret Murray)
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1983
Articles in this issue include:
- Life Values Inherent in the Schulwerk
- Interview with Richard Gill, part II
- Introducing Carl Orff Canada
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1983
Articles in this issue include:
- Children’s Singing Voices: Toward Vocal Fitness
- Editorial: Once is Enough
- Orff Schulwerk and Pooh Bear
- The Realm of the Pentatonic
- Orff for the Instrumentalist.
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1983
Articles in this issue include:
- In Memorium: Carl Orff
- Demonstration with Recordings
- Editorial: on Patterns
- Interview with Richard Gill, Part I
- Using the Orff Process in Teaching Choral Music
- Orff at Middle School
- Pre-school Auditory and Perceptual Development
- Spring Fling; Seeing Music Education by Looking at Art Education;
- Reading and Music.
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1983
Articles in this issue include:
- On Teaching Music
- Editorial: Where do We Begin
- Play Parties
- Rhythmic Coordination: Attainable, Essential
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1982
Articles in this issue include:
- Renaissance Percussion Instruments and their Performance Practice
- Editorial: on Models
- Give your Sharpshooters a Shot
- Safari: the Half-day Campout
- Drama: a Creative Process
- The Suzuki-Orff Program at the Music Center of the North Shore
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1982
Articles in this issue include:
- In Memorium: Carl Orff
- Editorial: on Teaching Styles
- An Interview with Helen Kemp
- No Two the Same: a Report on Instrument Making
- Reflections on Jemez Pueblo
- From Pulse to Improvisation with Rhythm Instruments
- Research in Music Education: Taking a Closer Look at Learning
- Orff on Wheels.
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Th Orff Echo, Spring 1982
Articles in this issue include:
- The Brain’s Timetable for Developing Musical Skills
- The Learning Disabled Child in the Orff Classroom
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