The Orff Site Show
A music teacher sharing the joy of teaching elementary music using the Orff-Schulwerk approach. Practical applications elementary music teachers can use.
- Update frequency
- every 73 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2011
Bluesy Body Percussion
Using the body percussion patterns as taught by both Jim Solomon and Jo Ella Hug, we add a little bit of 12 bar blues. Students as young as second grade can learn and be successful with this pattern.…
00:05:38 |
Fri 28 Oct 2011
Ostinati or Nice
This podcast contains excerpts from a 3rd grade class lesson. In the lesson, I start with a poem, the have the students help create ostinati by using word chains. They practice the rhythms using body…
00:09:50 |
Mon 20 Jun 2011
This and That on Groundhog Day
This podcast deals with story selection for Orff based lessons, mentions where to find teaching visuals and some lesson ideas on the Orffsite.com website, and offers an Orff Approach teacher planning…
00:04:57 |
Wed 02 Feb 2011
Playing with Poetry
In this episode I illustrate ways to take a simple poem and do many different musical activities with the poem or rhyme. This episode refers to a poem and lesson that is posted on my website. You can…
00:05:41 |
Sun 03 Oct 2010
Dr. Julie Scott, President of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Julie Scott is Assistant Professor in Music Education at Southern Methodist University. She recently completed a Ph.D. at the Eastman School of Music, where she was Assistant Professor of Music Educ…
00:16:10 |
Sat 03 Jul 2010
Workshops and Continuing Education
This episode concerns the importance of workshops and continuing ed. Workshops are my favorite sources of teaching procedures and lesson ideas. They are highly motivational and put me in contact with…
00:09:54 |
Sun 25 Apr 2010
Presenting Programs
The subject of today's podcast is programs. In today's show, I share one of the ways I present a program to parents. I believe in using the music I already am teaching, and do not use commercial kids…
00:13:21 |
Sun 07 Feb 2010
Holiday Music
This is episode 3 of the Orffsite Show Podcast, for December 12, 2009. This podcast is designed to show how I'm implementing the Orff Approach in my elementary music classes. This show's topic is Hol…
00:14:40 |
Sat 12 Dec 2009
Speech to Music Part Two
The Orff approach in today's show is, again, moving from speech to music. The episode includes audio of a classroom activity for older students. This activity shows how you can move a group from spee…
00:08:12 |
Sun 25 Oct 2009
Speech to Music
The Orff approach in today's show is moving from speech to music. The episode includes audio of a classroom activity. This activity shows how you can move a group from speech to playing music.
00:05:28 |
Thu 22 Oct 2009
About the Orff Site Show
The Orff Site Show is a podcast about using the Orff-Schulwerk approach in your elementary music class. This is the introductory episode which tells the listener what the show is about and what to ex…
00:04:59 |
Tue 20 Oct 2009
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