LEXICON

INTRODUCTION

We are pleased to present you the Lexicon Orff-Schulwerk / Elemental Music and Movement Education by Michael Kugler.

The German original can be found on the website of the Orff-Schulwerk Gesellschaft Deutschland : https://orff-schulwerk.de/lexikon/

The International Orff-Schulwerk Forum Salzburg is grateful to Michael Kugler for granting us his permission for this translation and to the Orff-Schulwerk Association of Germany for allowing us to publish it on the IOSFS website. This service provides access to English-speaking members and to other interested persons world-wide.

We begin by posting the most relevant terms used in publications about the Orff-Schulwerk and will add more entries in the future.

By clicking on one of the letters in alphabetical order at the top of the page you will find the entries available to read. Terms in bold indicate that there is a separate entry available for this term.

The references at the end of each entry refer to citations in the German text. In due course, we shall provide a “Further reading” section at the end of the Lexicon for relevant texts in English.

The author of this online lexicon expressly reserves all exploitation rights to all content in print, audio, video, electronic and digital media as well as the right to translation into other languages. Verbatim copies of text passages must be labelled as quotations.

Prof. Dr. Michael Kugler studied musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) and music education for secondary schools at Munich’s Staatliche Hochschule für Musik. After teaching in secondary schools from 1968 to 1973, he lectured in music didactics and music education at the LMU. In 1994 he completed a postdoctoral qualification in music pedagogy. Beginning in 1998 he carried out a research project in collaboration with the Orff Centre Munich on the history of the Günther-Schule for Gymnastics, Music and Dance. Documentation in German was published in 2002 as Elementarer Tanz, Elementare Musik: Die Günther-Schule München, 1924 bis 1944, with an English translation by Margaret Murray following in 2013 as Elemental Dance-Elemental Music: The Munich Günther School 1924-1944, both published by Schott. From 2007 he was associate professor of music education at the LMU and is now retired. He has published and lectured about early instrumental music, African American religious vocal music as well as historical, anthropological, educational and didactic aspects of the Jaques-Dalcroze Eurhythmics and the Orff-Schulwerk.

Translation: Verena Maschat

Editorial assistance: Carolee Stewart

Design and Composition: Laura Hennessy

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