The Orff Music Therapy

Orff Music Therapy is a multi-sensory therapy. The use of musical material, phonetic-rhythmic speech, free and metric rhythm, movement, melos in speech and singing, and the handling of instruments is organized in such a way that it addresses itself to all the senses. It can fortify other forms of therapy when it is intelligently coordinated with them. It can be used with mental and physical handicaps, with sense handicaps, with disturbances of behaviour, development of the ability to communicate, and with the autistic. Many of these basic principles may be used in therapy for adults. Gertrud Orff played an active role in the realization and early interpretation of "Music for Children". Her knowledge has been consolidated and complemented by her work with doctors, psychologists and teachers in special education. There are chapters on: Orff Music Therapy and its relation to Orff-Schulwerk; practical work, therapy with different kinds of handicap, suggestions for treatment, the relationship between parents and therapists and case histories. Illustrated.