Orff - The video shows students experiencing music through
singing and playing instruments. They are using nonpitched rhythm sticks to
perform the rhythm and rhythmically singing or chanting a song or rhyme. The
rhythm they are performing with the sticks may have been one they explored on
their own, the passing of the sticks around the circle is different.
Dalcroze - The video is short but represents the approach very well. The Dalcroze Eurhythmics component focuses on free body movement in response to music and these students are definitely moving in response to the music. The movement matches the rhythm and when the rhythm changes, speeds up, the movement is sped up. I also noticed the three different movements they repeated and it reminded me of last weeks movement exercise. What the video showed was ABCABCA.
Kodaly – The beginning of the video shows a teacher with flash cards and the pre-school or kindergarten students are learning to recognize and name notes. The remainder of the video is folk songs and the different elements of music they are teaching, such as high and low. I was hard to find a good video for the Kodaly approach or atleast a video that I could make sense of the approach being incorporated in the musical instruction.
