“Experience first, then intellectualize.”
As quoted in "The Orff Process" (4 July 1997) by Deborah Jeter
Carl Orff foi um compositor alemão, um dos mais destacados do século XX, famoso sobretudo por sua cantata Carmina Burana.
Contudo, a sua maior contribuição se situa na área da pedagogia musical, com o Método Orff de ensino musical, baseado na percussão e no canto. Orff criou uma escola de educação musical para crianças e leigos em 1925, no qual trabalhou até a data do seu falecimento.
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“Experience first, then intellectualize.”
As quoted in "The Orff Process" (4 July 1997) by Deborah Jeter
As quoted in a review of Langley Schools Music Project : Innocence and Despair (2001) http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4685-innocence-and-despair/ by Dominique Leone (6 January 2002)
As quoted in Through Music to the Self : How to Appreciate and Experience Music Anew (1979) by Peter Michael Hamel, p. 18
Contexto: Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer. It is pre-rational, has no over-all form, no architectonics, involves no set sequences, ostinati or minor rondo-forms. Elemental Music is earthy, natural, physical, capable of being learnt and experienced by anybody, child's play.... Elemental Music, word and movement, play, every-thing that awakens and develops the powers of the soul builds up the humus of the soul, the humus without which we face spiritual soil-erosion.... we face spiritual soil-erosion when man estranges himself from the elemental and loses his balance.
As quoted in "Carl Orff" by Everett Helm in The Musical Quarterly Vol. 41, No. 3 (July 1955)