Music and Visual Art at the Orff Schulwerk. An Experience of Integration of Arts in Primary Education

Abstract

Orff Methodology is an educational tool that aims to educate through music. It focuses on its elements: rhythm, melody, harmony and timbre. Much importance is given to improvisation and musical creation. In the public school Pintor Rosales use this methodology integrating the artistic teaching in the development of the method. In this way, we learn more globally, including other intelligences and skills that children acquire through play, discovery and experimentation.