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Carl Orff: Musical Humanist

2006; Common Ground Research Networks; Volume: 3; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18848/1447-9508/cgp/v03i08/41778

1447-9559

Daniel C. Johnson,

Diverse Musicological Studies

Beyond the obvious knowledge and skills imparted, education respects and enables students in ways that training does not.Composer Carl Orff articulated a central theme of his approach to education also known as Orff-Schulwerk, or schooling in music through active involvement when he wrote: "Anyone who has worked with children or young people in the spirit of Schulwerk will have discovered that it has a humanizing influence which transcends its musical function."This paper is an exploration of the Schulwerk in terms of its humanizing potential as well as a comparason of the Schulwerk to humanism as articulated by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.