Orff Approach
Out of the three videos I found the Orff Schulwerk video is my favorite. In the video the children are sitting in a circle and they are picking up a stick and placing it in front of the person beside them. They are chanting along as they do this. They play a rhythm on the ground while continuing the chant. This video display’s Orff’s approach to music when the children were rhythmically speaking the chants and rhymes. It also displays this music approach when the children accompany body rhymes by clapping. This video shows coordination and in the video you can see a few children whose sticks go flying or are out of reach, those children still continue to sign the chant. This video is a lot different from the video I picked for Dalcroze Eurthymics. This video had a structure where the kids constantly singing and moving the sticks around creating a beat. This video has no hand signs following the scale like the Kodaly video I found does. The similarities in this video and the Kodaly video is that in both videos the students are singing and moving in some form. The Orff approach to music is beneficial because it involves active music making and creative active.
Dalcroze Approach
When I picked this video I originally thought this was a good one because it shows multiple sections of a lesson and events that the kids have done around this musical approach. Now when I’m trying to write about it I should have just picked a video showing one approach but oh well I still like it! The section that stands out most that I noticed showing this approach was the various tempos being played on the piano and how the students responded to it. With the upbeat faster tempos the students had more energy and would run around faster, the slower tempos the students walked or skipped to the tempo being planned by the piano. The ear training in this video demonstrating this method was when the students moved with their bodies up and down representing ascending and descending. What was different about this video compared to the Orff video was this video had various sections and showed more movement in the classroom done by students this video also had students in various sections follow the scale by moving their bodies up or down. The Orff video didn’t have any type of scale to it. Dalcroze approach is beneficially because it leads to more complex responses involving dual coordination.
Kodaly Approach
This video demonstrates the Kodaly approach in various ways. The students use hand signals and follow the scale when they sing in certain snippets. They also practice the hang gestures for the scale when siting in the circle. The work on movement while singing and passing a ball. Just like the Orff video where everyone is passing sticks they are passing a ball. The Dalcroze Eurhythmics video also had a section showing children passing a tennis ball to each other while bending their knees to keep the tempo. This approach is important because it allows students to be able to read music fluently and these students will be able to transfer their music reading from voice to instruments.
When I picked this video I originally thought this was a good one because it shows multiple sections of a lesson and events that the kids have done around this musical approach. Now when I’m trying to write about it I should have just picked a video showing one approach but oh well I still like it! The section that stands out most that I noticed showing this approach was the various tempos being played on the piano and how the students responded to it. With the upbeat faster tempos the students had more energy and would run around faster, the slower tempos the students walked or skipped to the tempo being planned by the piano. The ear training in this video demonstrating this method was when the students moved with their bodies up and down representing ascending and descending. What was different about this video compared to the Orff video was this video had various sections and showed more movement in the classroom done by students this video also had students in various sections follow the scale by moving their bodies up or down. The Orff video didn’t have any type of scale to it. Dalcroze approach is beneficially because it leads to more complex responses involving dual coordination.
This video demonstrates the Kodaly approach in various ways. The students use hand signals and follow the scale when they sing in certain snippets. They also practice the hang gestures for the scale when siting in the circle. The work on movement while singing and passing a ball. Just like the Orff video where everyone is passing sticks they are passing a ball. The Dalcroze Eurhythmics video also had a section showing children passing a tennis ball to each other while bending their knees to keep the tempo. This approach is important because it allows students to be able to read music fluently and these students will be able to transfer their music reading from voice to instruments.
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