The role of popular music in Orff Schulwerk

Martina Vasil
2020 Zenodo  
Music from children's culture and elemental compositions form the central canon of the Orff-Schulwerk approach. In this article, the author explains why popular music is also "music for children" today, describes the elemental characteristics of popular music that invite creativity, and offers strategies for bringing popular music into the Orff Schulwerk classroom.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.3831352 fatcat:4clm7taqn5hrhp2jw3nj76frzq