Taking the Orff Approach to Heart: Essays & Articles from a Pioneer of Orff in America contains twenty-nine original essays and articles. It is a companion book to Making It Up As You Go, also from Brasstown Press.

North American Orff educator Isabel McNeill Carley writes with skill and humor on topics from theory to practice, integrating music, speech, movement, and improvisation.


Assigned as a text in Orff Levels certification instruction, Taking The Orff Approach to Heart offers insights into teaching, childhood development, pentatonic music theory and applications, and even an illustrated children's story.


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The Table of Contents includes:

1. The Case for Creativity

2. That Lovely Two-Headed Betsy Higginbottam

3. Create or Perform

4. Music Plus: Five- and Six-Year-Olds in the Classroom

5. Playing With Our Materials: Speech Play

6. Speech Play Resources

7. At the Foot of the Mountains, Or How Mrs. Dow Made a Song

8. Introducing Ostinati with Murray Volume I

9. Tips for Teachers of the Recorder

10. How To Introduce the Orff Ensemble

11. Practicing Some Neglected Ensemble Techniques

12. Master Class: Composing and Arranging for the Orff Classroom

13. Teaching Music to Preschoolers

14. Concerning Rabbits

15. The Next Ten Years: A View from the Early Day

16. On Patterns in A Music Gestalt

17. First Encountering Gunild Keetman

18. Improvisation Makes It Happen

19. The Inclusive Art of Music

20. The Essential Role of the Recorder

21. Using the Recorder: The Orff Approach

22. On Setting a Program's Goals

23. The Schulwerk's Origins and Early Music

24. The Orff Approach in...