Schott Musik

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

Rodion Shchedrin is internationally recognized as the pre-eminent contemporary composer of the Russian modern school. His autobiography looks back over an eventful life and provides a variety of stimu...

Orgel (Harmonium)

Edward Lear's delightful poem set for speaker(s), recorders (D. Tr. T. B/SATB) and Orff instruments (with movement and dance improvisation).

Animal Cracker Suite is a set of four original poems arranged for speech chorus, body percussion, and percussion ensemble. Twenty-one additional original poems are included for teachers and students t...

Orff Schulwerk Today is addressed to all music teachers who want to develop clarity of purpose in a child-centred educational environment.It presents a fresh synthesis of doing and understanding that...

From the distinguished music educator, Robert A. Amchin, comes Shalom Chaveirim, or 'hello friends!'. As a supplement to the American Orff Schulwerk, Music for Children, this collection presents simpl...

In 1924 Dorothee Günther and Carl Orff founded a School for Gymnastics and Dance whose influence unfolded between the Weimar Republic and the end of the Second World War. In this book seven authors pr...

This compilation of collaborative work produced by a group of Orff practitioners from California, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, APM in Action, consists of twelve projects developed and tried out w...

How can I form a curriculum that addresses my students' needs? How can I choose the best materials for my lessons from the abundance of materials avaliable? How can I plan lessons from the abundance o...

English translation by Susan Kennedy. Originally published in German as Einführung in Musik für Kinder as a guide to the original schulwerk for students at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, this work ma...

Im Frühjahr 2012 schrieb ich für das Duo Imaginaire ein knapp viertelstündiges Werk für die ganz ungewöhnliche, aber umso reizvollere Duobesetzung von Klarinette und Harfe. Der romantisch-ironische Ti...

The first edition of the musical works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, begun in the 1920s, foundered as a result of adverse economical conditions and because it was an enterprise ahead of its time. In the interve...

Sight-reading is an important aspect of making music and should in some form become a regular part of a student's routine each time they play their instrument. Regular sight-reading helps the pupil to...

This collection of original tunes presents 193 carefully graded sight-reading pieces and exercises in a range of musical styles. Taking an approach based on self-learning, the 11 sections of the book...

These methods provide complete courses for players of all ages, guiding students from their first note to 'classics', together with compositions by contemporary writers. Each book is accompanied by hi...