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GENERAL MUSIC
Orff-Schulwerk, or simply Orff, is an approach for teaching music to children that was developed in the early 1920s by the German composer Carl Orff (1895 1982) and his fellow composer Gunild Keetman. The Orff approach encompasses music and movement and is based on activities that come naturally to children: singing, clapping, and dancing. Orff songs and poems can be either traditional (to the country in which they're taught) or original and are typically accompanied by Orff melody instruments, including glockenspiels, xylophones, metallophones, bass bars, and others. Playing these instruments together in small groups, students learn to become sensitive listeners.
While more than 10,000 music teachers in the United States...