The Orff teaching method is a unique music teaching method. It uses forms that children love to hear and see, such as children's songs, clapping, playing games, telling stories, singing, etc., to cultivate children's sense of music, especially their sense of rhythm and hearing, so that children can feel the happiness brought by music and love music.

The founder of the Orff teaching method, Karl Orff, is an accomplished German composer whose musical works are often performed around the world. He was also a pioneer in music education reform. His music education system is widely spread around the world, and his teaching materials have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Orff teaching method emphasizes the comprehensiveness of art education. It combines language, rhythm and music teaching, and uses various forms such as rhythm recitation, clapping and stamping of human instruments, music games, singing, dancing, painting, acting in short dramas, playing Orff instruments, etc., so that children can not only learn and learn with great interest Participate in musical activities and improve language skills, comprehension and performance skills.

Orff teaching method encourages children's innovative spirit. There are plenty of opportunities for children to improvise, innovate and seek differences in music activities. Special Orff instruments enable children to quickly express musical ideas on the instrument and enjoy the joy of creation.

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Orff’s common methods of teaching

1. Speaking plainly

The content is taken from children’s songs of this nation and region. , nursery rhymes, etc. In actual teaching, the lyrics learned are often taught to students in a spoken form, accompanied by rhyme, rhythm, speed, intensity and emotion. ?

2. Singing

For children who are new to music, the Orff teaching method does not require them to learn to read music. Most of the songs it chooses are in the pentatonic mode, and it uses the listening and singing method to teach, starting from perception, so that students can get rid of purely theoretical learning of music reading, sight-singing, music theory knowledge, etc. This method is more suitable for lower grade students who have just entered primary school from kindergarten.

3. Momentum

It is a posture that uses the human body as a natural instrument to produce sounds of different intensities through slapping, hitting, stomping, twisting, hammering, rubbing, etc. Momentum is usually connected with rhythm. It does some monophonic or polyphonic rhythm training by clapping hands, clapping legs, stamping feet, twisting fingers and other methods that are easy for students to learn and do.

4. Percussion instruments

The percussion instruments referred to here include two types. That is, percussion instruments without a fixed pitch: such as maracas, triangles, double horns, tambourines, soisters, etc. and percussion instruments with fixed pitches, such as bar instruments, timpani, etc. Orff instruments are simple and easy to play, mainly based on the pentatonic scale, and are usually used to accompany the main melody.

5. Games

The Orff teaching method requires that every class be a game. Of course, this kind of game is not just about playing, but about learning music knowledge through the game. The games it designs are all musical and organically combined with music knowledge.

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