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 1982
Articles in this issue include:
- Is Music in its Right Mind?
- Editorial: Setting Goals
- Notes from China
- Using the Recorder in Your Orff Class
- Experience in Basel
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1981
Articles in this issue include:
- Brain Research and Education
- FOKAN: Musical Exercises for Health and Well-being for Older Adulthood
- Greek Dance Then and Now
- A Journey Through the Schulwerk
- Guest Editorial: A Philosophy for Orff
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1981
Articles in this issue include:
- Down the Dusty Trail
- Editorial: Ersatz Orff
- Philosophical Implications of Orff-Schulwerk
- Tune in to the Music of Words
- The Development of Canon in Orff-Schulwerk
- The Birth of a Boys Choir
- Whats in a Name?
- Fill the Space with Dance.
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1981
Articles in this issue include:
- On Keys and Locks
- Take a Gamble on Reading with Music
- The College Professor and Orff
- Finding the Time, Space and Energy for Movement
- Children’s Theatre and Music
- Orff in South Africa
- The Mountain Dulcimer in the Music Class.
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1981
Articles in this issue include:
- Show us the Motion
- Editorial: an Ounce of Prevention
- Weave in Good Singing
- Digging for Sources
- Of the People — Folk Heritage: Myth, Legend, Tale
- Music for the Handicapped
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1980
Articles in this issue include:
- Street Speech, School Speech and the Orff Approach
- Guest Editorial: Some Thoughts on Sounds of Quietness
- Music and Language
- “Arts Alive” Summer Celebration
- Integrated Arts
- The Musically Educated Child: A Definition
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1980
Articles in this issue include:
- Ethnic Musics and the Schulwerk: Examining What and Why
- Guest Editorial: What Ever Happened to Music?
- The Year of the Recorder
- The Carnegie and Kids Co.
- Vocal Technique: The Vanishing Variable
- African Materials
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1980
Articles in this issue include:
- The Energy Show: Drama and Learning
- To ‘B’ or not to ‘B’
- Guest Editorial: Orff is a Four-Letter Word
- Creativity and the Related Arts
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1980
Articles in this issue include:
- Fostering Self-Esteem in the Music Classroom
- Guest Editorial: On Failing
- The Chronically Ill Child in the Music Classroom
- Using Song Material From the Original Orff Schulwerk Volumes
- What Makes an Activity “Therapeutic”
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1979
Articles in this issue include:
- Why Folk Music
- Guest Editorial: Creation or Re-creation; Product or Process
- The Fence or the Line
- Orff and the Administrator
- Complements of Peda
- Holidays
- And So They Skipped
- Easy Ensemble Repertoire for Recorders
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The Orff Echo, Summer 1979
Articles in this issue include:
- How the Orff Instruments Came Into Being
- The Integrated Curriculum: Orff Schulwerk and Math
- Coming Together Through Music: Integration of Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children
- The World is a Circle
- Planning with a Purpose
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1979
Articles in this issue include:
- Listening Part III; Music For Young Children Through Radio
- The Principles of a Dalcroze Education
- Meditation on Method
- The Sound of the Drum
- White Gloves and Holey Sheets
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1979
Articles in this issue include:
- Listening: A Different View
- A Workshop of Sound Experience
- Sing, Sing, What Shall We Sing
- Circle With Us
- Celebrations
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The Orff Echo, Fall 1978
Articles in this issue include:
- Notes from a Visit with Carl Orff, January 19, 1977;
- About Improvisation
- You and the New Copyright Law
- Departure Points
- Celebrations: Orff and the Classroom Teacher
- The Need for Silence.
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The Orff Echo, Spring 1978
Articles in this issue include:
- They Went to Sea in a Sieve
- Metamorphoses
- Concerning Rabbits
- How Much Can they Really Do?
- Guideposts (aural, imitative approach to instrumental sound)
- Puppetry and the Orff Process
- Las Siete Mariposas (The Seven Butterflies)
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The Orff Echo, Winter 1978
Articles in this issue include:
- In the Beginning, Movement and Dance
- Where and How to Start
- The Status of the Arts and the State of Music Education
- Reading Notation: One Approach
- Guideposts (childrens’ rhymes)
- An Observation in Discovery.
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