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Orff, Carl - ôrf, 1895–1982, German composer and educator. After studying at the Academy of Music at Munich, he helped to found the Günter School there in 1924. As a composer Orff wished to simplify music, to return to its primitive components. He attempted to adapt old monodic forms to modern tastes, employing dissonant counterpoint and vigorous rhythms. His most famous work


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    Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits (Chap. 5 "Carl Orff") » Read Now

    by Michael H. Kater. 399 pgs.

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    How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? The final book in a critically acclaimed trilogy that includes Different Drummers (OUP 1992) and The Twisted Muse (OUP 1997), this is a detailed study of the...
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    Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America ("Germany: Orff" begins on p. 258) » Read Now

    by Robert P. Morgan. 554 pgs.

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    This series presents the music of the Western world to the nonspecialist in six original, strikingly illustrated volumes. In each one, an outstanding musicologist surveys the music of a specific period, discusses its major composers, and examines the forces that influenced and helped shape their oeuvre.
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    Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater ("Primitive Classicism: Orff's Music Theater of Minimal Means" begins on p. 51) » Read Now

    by W. Anthony Sheppard. 350 pgs.

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    W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. "Revealing Masks "uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music...
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    Teaching Music in Secondary Schools: A Reader ("The 'Progressive' Approach: Orff-Schulwerk" begins on p. 14) » Read Now

    by Gary Spruce. 237 pgs.

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    Teaching Music in Secondary Schools is the accompaniment to its practical-based counterpart in this series Aspects in Teaching Secondary Music . Together they form a comprehensive resource for those engaged with Initial Teacher Training and Continuing Professional Development in Music. Through...
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    The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich ("The Ambiguities of Dissidence: Orff, Wagner-Regeny, and Furtwangler" begins on p. 188) » Read Now

    by Michael H. Kater. 327 pgs.

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    Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent? These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's...
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    The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera ("Orff, Carl" begins on p. 379) » Read Now

    by John Warrack, Ewan West. 571 pgs.

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    Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary of Opera, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of opera available in paperback. Fully revised for this new edition, with over 3,500 entries, it is designed to be accessible to all those who enjoy opera, whether at the opera-house or at...
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