Understand Orff’s musical thoughts through the educational concepts that focus on comprehensiveness, elementality and participation.

1. Comprehensiveness:

Orff believed that music is a comprehensive art form that should integrate multiple elements such as music, dance, poetry, and drama. In his music courses, he emphasizes not only teaching musical skills, but also focusing on cultivating students' comprehensive artistic feelings and performance abilities. He believes that through comprehensive art education, students' creativity and potential can be better explored.

2. Elemental nature:

Orff proposed the concept of elemental nature, which combines the basic elements of music—rhythm, pitch, timbre, etc.—with games and body movements. , improvisation and other elements are combined. This teaching method makes students more relaxed and happy in the process of learning music, and at the same time, they can better understand and master the basic elements of music.

3. Participation:

Orff emphasized students’ participation and initiative in music learning. He believes that students should not just passively receive music knowledge, but should become creators and performers of music. In his music courses, he encourages students to participate in singing, playing, dancing and other performance activities, while also focusing on cultivating students' musical creativity and improvisational abilities.

Orff’s musical characteristics:

1. Rich sense of rhythm: Orff believes that rhythm is one of the core elements of music and an important means for humans to naturally express emotions. . Therefore, in his musical works, he emphasizes the mastery and control of rhythm, and uses various rhythm combinations and changes to express different emotions and situations. This sensitivity and ability to control rhythm is also one of the important characteristics of Orff's music education.

2. Simple music form: Most of Orff's music works adopt simple music form, such as simple melody, harmony and musical form, etc., making it easier for the audience to understand and accept. At the same time, in his music courses, he also focuses on teaching students basic music skills and theoretical knowledge to help them better understand and create music.

3. Combine with other art forms: Orff believes that music is a comprehensive art form and should be combined with other art forms, such as dance, drama, poetry, etc. In his musical works, he often incorporates other art forms, such as dance, drama performances, poetry recitations, etc., making his musical works richer and more colorful.