DOCUMENT RESUME ED 053 153 TE 499 820 TITLE Orff-Schulwerk: Design foz Creativity. A Report of the Project "Creativity and Participation in Music Education." INSTITUTION Bellflower Unified School District, Calif. PUB DATE 31 Oct 68 GRANT OEG-4-6-000257-0356-056 NOTE 428p. EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.65 HC-$16.45 DESCRIPTORS *Creative Expression, *Educational Programs, *Music Education IDENTIFIERS *Orff Schulwerk ABSTRACT The objectives of this program were to:(1) engender a class environment in which invention and improvisation of student composition will be encouraged,(2) provide supporting learning experiences with fundamental movement techniques, and (3) illuminate basic elements of composition connecting the organization of space and sound in artistic expression. A pilot study had preceded program implementation, and the original staff was used. Orff-instrumentaria were employed, and four classes were utilized, scheduled on a twice-weekly basis. Three results of the program are:(1) The Orff-Schulwerk in the United States have a recognized career in the project--a philosophical foundatiou, experimental teaching laboratory, and professional support in teacher training and evaluation; (2) National cooperation and exchange of ideas among educators with Orff-Schulwerk has a possibility of real growth through a continuing quarterly; (3) International thinking and research exchange in Orff-Schulwerk was recognized to have effect on the American mainstream of educational planning for innovation in teacher training, teaching facilities, and teaching goals. (CK) tIVU S DEPARTMENT OFHEALTH a & WELFARE EDUCATION OFFICE OF THIS DOCUMENT EDUCATION EXACTLY AS HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM REPRODUCED ORGANIZATION THE PERSON VIEW OR ORIGINATING IT OR OPINIONS STATED POINTS OF DO NOT SARILY REPRESENT NECES CATION POSITION OFFICIAL OTTICE OR POLICY 01 EDU ti ORFF-SCHULWERK: DESIGN FOR CREATIVITY Pt\ A REPORT OF THE PROJECT co ca CREATIVITY AND PARTICIPATION 1.14 IN MUSIC EDUCATION Granted Under the Elementary andSecondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 89-10, Title III Grant Number:OEG-4-6-000257-0356-(056) Submitted to the UoS, Office of Education t By The BELLFLOWER UNIFIED SCHOOLDISTRICT Bellflower, California f October 31, 1968 RECEI fi V/ED JAN20 069 Prot/rem" Pyanning Cover Design By --- RAYSCHUTTE Instructor of Art Roosevelt Junior High School Bellflower Unified SchoolDistrict Bellflower, California r -2- THE PROJECT STAFF The staff which gave leadership to the ESEA Title III project, "Creativity and Participation in Music Education", began this endeavor after extensive experience in Europe with Orff-Schulwerk. Their work has reflected Carl Orff's personal concern with Schul- werk in the United States and the realistic integration of the original ideas into typical American school practice. Project Director, Martha Maybury (Smith) Wampler, on leave from her post as 777Frumental music specialist with the Bellflower Unified School District, undertook a study and teaching program in Orff-Schulwerk for thirty months in the Salzburg-Munich area in 1963-65. During this time her contacts with the other staff members began a Working relationship which was to give depth of understanding to the new Bellflower project. Project S ecialist, Frau Gertrud Orff, co-worker in the original Gunther chool Orff-Schulwerk in Munich, Germany, left her posts as teacher and specialist in Orff-Schulwerk in various Munich public and private schools for children and teacher training to head the pilot teaching in Bellflower. Specialist Assistant, Margit Cronmueller Smith, released by Dr. Orff from her faculty post at the Orff-lnstitut in Salzburg, Austria, joined the Bellflower staff in its second phase to expand the base of pilot teaching throughout a six city area. MAIN TITLES OF SECTIONS Narrative History of the Project 9 SECTION I SECTION II Curriculum Development 49 179 SECTION III Evaluation Report SECTION IV Research in American Culture 247 SECTION V International Symposia 287 SECTION VI Project Dissemination 355 SECTION VII Bibliography 361 -5- 1 I NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEPROJECT 9 Background Project's Launching Stage 17 Project's Second Stage and theFirst International Symposium on Orff-Schulwerk inthe United States 23 Project's Third Stage and theSecond International 29 Symposium on Orff-Schulwerk inthe United States Post-Project Activities inParticipating Districts 45 and Universities 48a Financial Statement -7- NARRATIVE HISTORY OF PROJECT BACKGROUND In January, 1966, the Bellflower Unified School District was awarded a United States Government Grant to carry out an exemplary pilot-teaching and research project !n Orff-Schulwerk. The proposal met the standards of the new Federal Aid to Education bill signed by President Johnson in July, 1965, and survived the test of national competition. It was one of 69 educational projects to be selected from among 756 appli- cations filed from 44 states in the United States. Centrally located in the "megalopolis" of Los Angeles County where the population numbers over seven million inhabitants, this nationally sponsored Project had a unique advantage in the development of Schulwerk in the United States, The exact positioning of the Orff-Schulwerk American research in Bellflower, California may best be sighted by a recognition of three timely developments in education in America: (I) The accent on creativity (2) Interest in International exchange of people and ideas (3) Federal aid to education. These three sight-lines converged in Bellflower not by con- trivance, but through a series of innovative ventures which began to be recognized in1963. At that time the school district explored a plan to gain foundation money to support a proposed music-education research in cooperation with the California State College at Long Beach. Orff-Schulwerk was to be a part of the research. The bid for foundation support failed but the administration of the Bellflower School District seemed committed to try again. The schools had acquired a reputation in the area for innovation since leading the trend toward elementary-secondary unification during the fifties. The individual study of Orff-Schulwerk in Europe of Martha Maybury (Smith) Wampler began in Summer, 1963 and was assisted by a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship during the 1964-65 school year. -9- When the new.education bill was introduced to Congress, there- fore, Dr. W. Norman Wampler, the superintendent, and Dr. Charlotte Stevenson, the coordinator of music, acted immediately to renew research planning. In a letter to Martha Maybury Wampler, then in Munich Germany, June, 1965, they proposed that she return to Bellflower to direct the project as a first depth study of Orff-Schulwerk in United States. Bringing Orff-Schulwerk to Bellflower was, from the first, a challenge in maintaining unencumbered freedom from hybrid influence. In providing for a direct communication between Carl Orff, the German pedagogical innovator, and American experiments, extraneous ideas riot pertinent to this objective simply were not considered. While American modification of the basic Schulwerk concept was desirable, the project planners nevertheless, resisted involvement at the outset with traditional music program concepts and with fragmentary American versions of Orff's ideas. As a result of two and one-half years of study and teaching in the Munich-Salzburg area (1963-1966), Martha Maybury Wampler was able to invite the support of the leading European author- ities in Orff-Schulwerk in preparing the Bellflower study. It is important that the Project application was written during a four month period by the superintendent of schools, Dr. Wampler, who maintained constant communication with the planners in Europe. Dr. Carl Orff, Dr. Walter Kaun, Munich, Germany, and Professor Wilhelm Keller, Director, Orff-lnstitut, Salzburg, Austria, and other teachers with whom Martha Wampler worked, were thus able to contribute their years of experience and special knowledge to the gestating design of a "dream" school situation. This vitallink with Orff-Schulwerk's origins during the planning period has marked the project with authority and direction so observable in its subsequent development. Orff-Schulwerk was introduced in Bellflower into a limited pilot- teaching program using specialists direct from work in the European origin of the movement. Philosophical strength and understanding of the main-stream of American culture to supple- ment the proposed laboratory work with children was the work of a committee of American university scholars. This committee was headed by Dr. Robert Haas, Head, Department of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California Extension, Los Angeles; Dr. William Hutchinson, Assistant Dean, College of Fine Arts, University of California at Los Angeles; Dr. Dean Flower, Department of Literature, University of Southern California; Mrs. Bess Lomax Hawes, Department of Anthropology, San Fernando State College at Northridge; Mr. Richard Harsh, Educational Testing Service, Los Angeles. They would function closely with 9 10 the Project Director and special teachers toward planting Orff's ideas in the most productive way. Carl Orff assisted in securing the cooperation of Frau Gertrud Orff as special teacher-consultant for the first stages of the project. Frau Orff chose, subsequently, to continue in the Project and returned again to the United States. Miss Margit Cronmueller came for the 1966-67 school year. Dr. Orff granted her leave-of-absence from the staff of the Orff-lnstitut