Utah State University offers an Orff Schulwerk Teacher Education Course, led by Leslie Timmons and Karen Petty, focusing on ...

During the mid-20th century, Orff developed a method of teaching music to children that was meant to present music-making as something very close to a child's normal practices of play and ...

His Orff Schulwerk encouraged learning music through rhythm and creative thinking, methods he thought to be much more effective (and enjoyable) than learning by repetition. The work also called for a ...

Carl Orff brings the Middle Ages into the modern era with Carmina Burana, one of the best-loved choral works of the 20th century, and an exuberant celebration of the power of music’s simplest ...

Carl Orff. Carl Orff was a German composer who is now best known for his strange and massive choral work: Carmina Burana. Orff was born in Munich and began writing music when he was very young.