The Elementary Music Teacher Podcast: Music Education 69- Aimee Pfitzner on using the Orff approach with singing games and body percussion
This episode with Aimee Pfitzner is about how to use the Orff approach when it comes to doing singing games and body percussion in your music classroom.
Aimee Curtis Pfitzner has been the Lower School Music Director at Cannon School in Concord for 22 years. She holds a Masters of Music degree from UNC-Greensboro and completed Level I Orff-Schulwerk Training at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, Levels II and III at UNLV, and Master's Level at the University of Memphis. Aimee is a frequent presenter at AOSA chapter workshops around the country and National AOSA conferences. Her books, "Hands to Hands, Clapping Songs and Games from Around the World", "Hands to Hands, Too", "Painted Music", and "Sing a Song, Play a Game" are available from Beatin' Path Publications.
She is passionate about music making, gardening, adoption, and anything and everything creative; painting, zendoodling, digital scrapbooking, making jewelry, writing music, crafting, and sewing. When not teaching or writing music, singing, or creating, she can be found musically musing on her blog, www.ofortunaorff.com.
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