Orff intruments: World-renowned German composer and music educator Carl Orff (1895-1982) established a unique musical teaching method for the use of instruments.
It is divided into non-fixed pitch instruments and fixed pitch instruments.
In Orff’s teaching, instruments such as piano and violin are usually not used, but refined percussion instruments are used. Orff instruments can be divided into two types: those with fixed pitch, which can play the melody, and those without a fixed pitch, which can play rhythm.
No fixed pitch percussion instrument
The combination of the system is not random, generally based on four categories:
Wooden type: single, double wooden sounder, wooden claves, wooden fish, castnet, frog box, etc., the sound is crisp, and bright, with no lingering sound.
Scattered sound type: maracas, shaker egg, jingle bell, wrist bell etc., the sound is characterized by small volume, sound scattered, sustainable play long sound.
Leather: Various drum instruments. Generally resonant sound, low voice, high volume.
Metal: triangle bell, handle sleigh bell, harmonica, etc., the most prominent feature is a continuous sound, crisp.
In addition, there are many percussion instruments with special sounds, such as wooden frog, especially in percussion music of each country, there are some instruments with a very unique timbre, such as various Chinese gongs and cymbals, which can be added to add characteristics based on the above instrument group.
Music education begins also emphasizes participation in content – homemade Musical Instruments, musical instrument, is made by themselves can make children start to understand the perceptual instruments pronunciation principle, the principle of Musical Instruments, etc., is the easiest thing in all kinds of Musical Instruments is the percussion instruments,
such as cans, paper cups into the sand as a sounder,
wine cap and will also be strung together as one kind of Jingle bell,
that is afraid of a pair of chopsticks is a wooden instrument,
Cartons and buckets can be used as drums.
When the children play a self-designed percussion ensemble with their percussion instruments, their experience, pleasure, and interest are just as much as that with real instruments. This invention also just cultivates the child’s hands-on ability and creativity.
Fixed pitch instrument
Mainly wood xylophones, high, middle, and low bass metal high, middle, and low aluminum (or steel sheet and other synthetic metal) harp, as well as the higher and more crisp sound of the small glockenspiel. There are also a small number of strings in the Orff arrangement, which mainly refers to the low-string instrument with only two strings, such as the cello.
