Welcome to the Website of the Orff-Schulwerk Forum Salzburg

The Orff-Schulwerk Forum Salzburg was founded in 1983 as a public non-profit organisation. It works in close relation to the Carl Orff-Foundation, the Carl-Orff-Institute, the Orff-Center Munich and the international Orff-Schulwerk Associations.
The Orff-Schulwerk Forum Salzburg is supported by the Carl Orff Foundation.

The purpose of the Orff-Schulwerk Forum is to provide international information and exchange about the work with Orff-Schulwerk.

The Orff-Schulwerk Forum is publisher of the bi-annual magazine Orff-Schulwerk Informationen covering current themes of Elemental Music and Dance Education as well as reports from the international Orff-Schulwerk Associations.

Forum (lat. market place), in antiquity the city centre, a meeting place for people to talk and to listen, for trading and gathering. Today, forum is a platform open for specific questions, for exchanging experiences and opinions.

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Orff-Schulwerk Informationen

The issue No. 83 with the main theme "Improvisation" has been published in June 2010.

The issue No. 84 with the main theme "Music and Dance Theatre in Schools"will be published in December 2010.
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Recommendations and Guidelines of the Orff-Schulwerk Forum
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Project 2008-2010
The Orff-Schulwerk Forum is preparing the publication of seminal texts on Orff-Schulwerk.
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New Publications of Music and Dance Education

- MUSIC AND DANCE EDUCATION

Index (1961 – 2009)


The Index for 82 issues of Orff-Schulwerk Informationen was published in February 2010. It is a carefully prepared index of all articles along with the documentations of the 7 great International Orff-Schulwerk Symposia plus the yearbooks that were published during the first decade of the Carl-Orff-Institute.
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DVD by Shirley Salmon and Coloman Kallós
“Between Freedom and Ritual“
Means of expression with music and movement for people with disabilities



This documentation ist the result of long-term work in the field of musical educational science with people who have a disability. The content of the work can be verified by teaching and research.
The concept and the development of the DVD are explained and examples from the chapters are shown:
I History of the work with people with a disability at the Carl-Orff-Institute
II Insights into Practical Work
III Background and Reflexion
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