Elemental style of composition and arrangement: an Orff-Schulwerk perspective beyond the xylophones

This article aims to describe and analyze a segment of the elementary style of composition and arrangement production commonly associated with the Orff-Schulwerk approach. By sharing possibilities and experiences in Music Education, we highlight how concepts involving drone, ostinato, color, and melody can contribute to the development of proposals aligned with an arts-educational and pedagogical-musical approach that is decompartmentalized, non-methodical, creative, and demands (re)interpretations of the various musical cultures within the school. In this work, we emphasize arrangement propositions that can and should be adapted to the needs and possibilities of implementation, utilizing different instruments or bodily dynamics, thereby providing collective and creative dynamics associated with the characteristics of the Orff-Schulwerk approach.