The Orff-Schulwerk - Rhythmic-Melodic Education

Year Published: 1959

Country of Origin: Germany

Description: 16mm Film - The Orff-Schulwerk - Rhythmic-Melodic Education - BRD 1959 Camera and Direction: Hans-Rolf Strobel and Heinz Tichawsky Script and Music: Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman Narrator: Kurt Horwitz The starting point and basis for Carl Orff's music is the spontaneous drive to move and the elemental power of rhythm. The film can only provide a small cross-section of the extensive body of work. It does so by showing through eight instructive examples how Carl Orff's teaching method, as if in play, awakens elemental forces. The companion booklet to the film gives the following headings for the eight examples: Elementary instruction in the pentatonic scale Improvisation exercise Round dance — sung, played and danced Dance with instruments Witch's multiplication table — rhythm from language Berceuse — movement improvisation Dance piece for flutes and percussion Finale — words from Goethe's Faust From simple rhythmic-melodic exercises for the youngest children through to improvisational play on typical Orff instruments, this film documents the Orff method in practice.

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