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This is an eBook for digital download (95 pages)
This new collection of pop-inspired Orff Arrangements are full of possibilities and fun to play! These five original grooves for Orff Ensemble serve as a starting place for you to be generative with students. Each piece can be performed as-is OR adapted for your specific purposes, allowing space for improvisation, original lyrics, re-arrangement, and more. This resources includes sheet music, MP3 tracks, and score videos.
Be generative – with a starting place. Pop-inspired, full of possibilities, and fun to play! These five original grooves for Orff Ensemble serve as a starting place for you to be generative with students. Each piece can be performed as-is OR adapted for your specific purposes, allowing space for improvisation, original lyrics, re-arrangement, and more.
The musical ideas included in these pieces are derived from pop music. Each melody begins in a simple rhythmic form and iterates to a fully realized melodic idea drawn from common musical building blocks. These iterations illuminate motivic development and provide a step-by-step approach to advanced concepts such as ties and syncopations. Students are prompted with directions and colors to gradually add complexity.
Ensemble teachers seeking to infuse their work with student creativity will find a great starting place with these pieces. Additionally, teachers should feel free to add their own ideas to these arrangements, adding different instruments and parts, vamping different sections, and choreographing movement sequences. Each groove holds space for improv, solos, dances, raps/flow, and other performance elements. Each piece serves as a launch pad for generative work you could present at concerts, highlighting student creativity.
Groove works beautifully for young ensembles. Groove animates from within, and allows your audience to participate. There is a place for any skill level in a groove, and playing grooves fosters deeper listening in your players. Groove joins our listening life with our playing life and creates a palpable group dynamic among players. Get your students moving and grooving with these original pieces!
Each Arrangement includes:Â
Included Songs:
Preview Track: Lunch Time
Krysta Fogel –
This is such a fun collection of pieces for a variety of grade levels. Fortune and Hein provide Orff ensemble pieces that can be played as written or can be easily transformed by students’ creativity. The lyrics are fun, the music is relatable and easily learned, and the possibilities are endless. My 4-6 graders loved ‘It’s a Hot Day’ and were able to move, speak, sing, play, and compose with this piece in just one class period. If you’re trying to spark imaginations, this book will do it!