First Experiences with Choirchimes and Orff Schulwerk by Griff Gall & Paul Weller.
The authors reasons to include choirchimes in your music classroom include:
- they are lightweight, durable, portable
- they use large kinesthetic movements that work with the young and those with special needs
- the sustained sound helps in pitch matching
- a 2-octave set costs less and involves more students than a bass xylophone
This book includes choirchimes in classroom music teaching, rather than in a traditional bell ensemble. It also approaches learning from the Orff process of Imitate > Explore > Label > Create/Improvise > Reflect. Music literacy is learned using chimes in the music classroom through a skillfully applied Orff approach incorporating speech, echo, canon, poetry, solfege, singing, folk songs, dance, movement improvisation, recorder playing, and more. This book is not a curriculum, but a book of lessons and ideas, goals and extensions in 3 levels: Primary (K-Gr. 1) lntermediate (Gr. 2-3), Upper Elementary (Gr. 4-5).
122 pp. Spiral Paperback
