Orff Approach To Music Education

Music education is an area of study related with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all learning spheres, including the development of skills, the development of knowledge, and in particular, the affective sphere where we see the learner 's enthusiasm to obtain, adopt, and share what is learned, including music appreciation and sensitivity. Music education is a topic that is discussed by many scholars on a regular basis. It is a topic that raises numerous questions as to its implementation in all education systems. Here we will focus on how the methodological approaches of Kodaly, Dalcroze and Orff have defined how music pedagogy is taught in schools.

The Kodaly method was developed by Zoltán Kodály, a Hungarian compeoser, ethnomusicologist,

The Orff Approach is a child-centred way of learning music education that engages a child’s whole self both physically and mentally. Orff’s methodology focuses on how Music, Dance and Movement informed music. Each individual has the ability in react and improvise speech and movement to music in their own way. Orff’s Approach incorporates singing, dancing, playing of instruments, improvisation and creativeness in all students in music education. Imitation of the material being used and exploration of the same is also of high importance. This allows the students to understand what they have been taught and bring it to new levels of understanding through improvisation and exploration. Alongside singing as one of the most important elements of Orff’s approach, playing an instruments is also vital. He believed that in order for students to understand the material they must first experience it. This is achieved by incorporating musical barred instruments, such as xylophones, marimbas, glockenspiels, and metallophones, and percussive instruments, such as tambourines, drums and clap sticks, into the class material for this methodology. This approach allows and incorporates musicianship, individual musicality and group participation, while also allowing for self-expression of the

However, it is our belief that in order to achieve a comprehensive and powerful music education, all departments of music education should foster a curriculum based on a combination of all three music education pedagogy. Each methodology was developed with different philosophies in the mind of the creator. However, the end goal of a good music education was the something which they had in common. To achieve an education in music that allows importance to all aspects of music, is an education that all children and adults should be entitled to and these methodologies go hand in hand with this