Pieces and Processes

Pieces and Processes

Music for Children series

By Steven Calantropio

Book

60 pages

A collection of 12 original songs, exercises, instrumental pieces and arrangements that provide fresh examples of elemental music. The works represent a wide variety of styles which draw upon the musical models of the Orff Schulwerk for inspiration. Step-by-step procedures for teaching melodic patterns, rhythmic patterns, harmonic schemes, small structural forms and simple improvisations are shown.

Each piece has a detailed teaching procedure designed to give music educators a collection of instructional techniques that can be used in all aspects of their work. A "Process Teaching Toolbox" organizes these techniques by musical element. Some pieces are meant for performance situations, a few are arrangements of folk material and some correspond with the organization of Music for Children, the 5 volumes that comprise the basic teaching materials of Orff Schulwerk.

Contents:

• Little Bitty Man
• Canon for Xylophones
• Lullaby
• 7/8 Dance
• Betty Botter
• Phrygian Melody
• Brian Boru's March
• Decorated Third Exercise
• 10/8 Dance
• Simi Yadech
• Jeremiah Sing Hallelujah