Level II – Orff Schulwerk Certification Program

Level II is a newly revised two-week course where educators consolidate the learning from Level I and go on to explore hybrid meters, hexatonic and modal melodies and accompaniments as well as extended forms, through movement, playing, improvising, and composing. Students develop practical skills in lesson planning and teaching in a supportive environment. Recorder includes a continuation of soprano recorder as well as introduction of the alto recorder. Movement vocabulary is built through active participation with opportunities to experience set dances, generate sequences, explore notation, and fundamentally embody the concepts of elemental music as the creative and artistic expression of self. This course prepares students for the “new Level III” curriculum featuring functional harmony and changing meter. The new Level III will be offered as a separate course in subsequent summers. However, this summer, Levels II and III will be combined for much of Basic Orff, to facilitate those who have taken the “old Level II.”

Prerequisites     

Successful completion of an approved Level I course with a mark of at least 80%. Please send a copy of your Level I grade to Pam Hetrick if you did not take Level I at VCC

Contact: 
Pam Hetrick
levels@bcorff.ca

Endorsed by Carl Orff Canada

Required Materials: 

• Orff/Keetman, Music for Children, Vols. I, II & IV, Schott, Margaret Murray Ed.
• The Royal Conservatory of Music Orff Teacher Education Handbook, Catherine West, available for purchase on the first day of the course
• Alto Recorder Course Pack – available from instructor on day 1.
• soprano, and alto recorders (preferably Aulos or Yamaha)
• manuscript paper or music program e.g., Sibelius or Finale

Suggested Materials (optional): 

• Paul Cribari and Richard Layton, The Elemental Style: A Handbook for Composers and Arrangers, Part I, Sweet Pipes
• Doug Goodkin, Play, Sing & Dance: An Introduction to Orff Schulwerk, Schott
• Steven Calantropio, Pieces and Processes, Schott
• Spielbuch fur Xylophon I, II, and III, Orff/Keetman
• Jane Frazee, Artful-Playful-Mindful, Schott 2012
• A good book of children’s poetry

Successful completion of an approved Level II course with a grade of at least 80% provides participants with the opportunity to continue training in Level III. This course is credited with 4 upper division credits.

Faculty

Amanda Ciavarelli (Basic Orff and Recorder) teaches elementary music at École South Pointe School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her choirs and Orff ensembles perform regularly at school assemblies, community events and concerts, at the Winnipeg Music Festival, and with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. She is a graduate of the University of Manitoba and holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education. She was honoured to receive the Morna-June Morrow Award for Excellence in education. Amanda is passionate about music education because of the important role music plays in the development and growth of children, fostering musicianship, teamwork, and communication while creating an opportunity for children to experience emotion and humanism through music.

Marcelline Moody (Basic Orff and Recorder) (B.A., U of W.A.), is an Orff graduate of the University of Manitoba, Canada, and of the Advanced Studies in Music and Dance Education from the Special Course at the Orff Institute, Salzburg. She has taught Orff Levels Courses for over 25 years at the University of Manitoba and workshops across Canada, in Australia, Salzburg, China, France, and England. She was a member of the Ostinato Editorial Board for several years. Her students have performed at National Orff conferences, and with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra for which they composed works. A Music Education consultant with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for 20 years, she now works as Education consultant with the Victoria Symphony. After retirement from the school system, she taught an Orff program for children from birth to 10 years at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and has directed recorder ensembles for Seniors. Her great love is the recorder, and she has published recorder manuals “Reach for a Star”, books 1 and 2. In June of 1986, she was awarded the Bronze Medal of the town of Ouistreham in Normandy, France, for her services to music in the community. She is a recipient of the Morna-June Morrow Award for Teaching Excellence in Manitoba and the Arts in Education Award from the Manitoba Foundation for the Arts.

Bethany Ellen Elsworth (Movement) is an experienced Orff-Schulwerk teacher from Australia.  She completed her Level 4 Orff training in New Zealand with movement teacher Barbara Haselbach and is a graduate of the 2014/15 Postgraduate Degree of Advanced Studies in Music and Dance Education Orff-Schulwerk, from the Orff Institute in Salzburg. Bethany has been a Movement Levels presenter for the Australian National Orff-Schulwerk Association since 2011. Bethany now resides in the Okanagan working as a fine arts teacher in the Elementary sector. In collaboration with the BC Orff Chapter, she designed and implemented an online course titled, “A Touch of Orff.” Last year she was also invited to present sessions for the BC Orff Chapter and the BCMEA Conference. In 2019 she published her first book “As simple as you make it” in Australia and has recently launched a new resource in Canada called, “Hey you, make that sound!”  Bethany enjoys sharing her love of this creative approach and has enjoyed presenting sessions in Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, Japan and Singapore.