Making It Up As You Go: Selected Essays Writing About Music, Improvisation and Teaching

Making It Up as You Go: Selected Essays Writing about Music, Improvisation and Teaching

Orff Essentials Collection

By Isabel McNeill Carley

Book

Contents:
Editor's Note/Schulwerk Terms Glossary Introduction (by Anne M. Carley)
Part One - Origins
1. The Orff Approach
2. On Changing Your Life
3. Studies in Salzburg
4. AOSA Beginnings and The Orff Echo
5. Gunild Keetman, In Appreciation
6. The Magic Carpet of Sound
7. The Musical Realm of the Pentatonic Part Two - Practicum
8. Where Do We Begin?
9. Speech Play
10. Building the Layered Orff Ensemble
11. The Essential Use of Improvisation in Teaching Recorder
12. Hand Drums: Playing Technique and Repertoire
13. Music Plus: Kindergarten Curriculum Goals
14. Advice to Orff Teachers
15. Transformations Part Three - Exhortations
16. Training: Once Is Never Enough
17. Music Worth the Difference
18. Ersatz Orff (And How to Avoid It)
19. On Teaching Styles
20. The Value of Side Trips
21. Create or Perform?
Resources
Biographical Sketch - Isabel McNeill Carley
Music and Instructional Works by IMC
The Isabel McNeill Carley Orff Essentials Collection