ORFF ASSOCIATION LINKS  AUSTRALIA - OVERSEAS OVERSEAS MUSIC EDUCATION SHOPS MUSIC ADVOCACY LINKS OTHER MUSIC EDUCATION LINKS Updated February 2005 - if you discover any relevant sites please let me know paulxs@optushome.com.au - thanks!   ORFF ASSOCIATION LINKS  AUSTRALIA Australian National Council of Orff-Schulwerk (ANCOS) Tasmanian Orff Schulwerk Association West Australian Orff Schulwerk Association Orff Schulwerk Association of South Australia New South Wales Orff Schulwerk Association GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN ORFF MUSIC Education (GradCertOrffMusEd) - Australian Catholic University   OVERSEAS Hawaii Orff Schulwerk Association, Linda Weyman, President You can hear the sound of our whales' songs! The Orff Schulwerk Resource Site (USA) - has lots of useful info! The Carl Orff Foundation (Carl Orff Homepage) American Orff-Schulwerk Association Indiana Orff Schulwerk Association The Austrian "Förderer des Orff-Schulwerk" Society The Orff Society (United Kingdom) Carl Orff Canada Orff Schulwerk Association of France The Orff Schulwerk Society of Germany The Jane Frazee Pro Merito Collection: An Annotated Bibliography OVERSEAS MUSIC EDUCATION RESOURCES SUPPLIERS John's Music Store, Seattle Washinton USA - fantastic array of Orff books and instruments West Music specializes in products and services for music education, music for kids, band & orchestra, music therapy and music software. Their extensive online catalogs contain thousands of useful instruments, accessories, books and materials for students, teachers and all musicians.  MUSIC ADVOCACY LINKS Music. Play for Life   The American Music Conference site <www.amc-music.org/>. It has some good info on Music Advocacy, as well as a wide variety of other info, and links to other relevant sites. I have downloaded from this site to the VOSA site (to save download time) a Powerpont presentation (1 Mb) and a Acrobat file (360K) "Music Advocacy Guidebook" which has lots of ideas and resources and research results for advocating music in your school community. An Australian directory of Studio Music and Speech Teachers is found at <www.musicteachers.com.au>. MuSICA Research Notes SUBJECT INDEX: Dr. Norman M. Weinberger of the University of California who is largely responsible for the Champions of Change report on the Arts in Education has a website associated with a journal called MuSICA which looks at all areas of research into music education and has a wealth of articles supporting the cognitive, social etc values of music in education. There's a subject index which includes everything from 'the Impact of the arts on adolescent learning' to 'Musical Infants and the Roots of Consonance'. There's masses of stuff there. It's at <http://musica.uci.edu/mrn/subjidx980901.html> Link to the Pentatonic Music Collection - an extensive site with lots of music examples! The PENTATONIC MUSIC COLLECTION consists of songs and compositions in which the notes of the melody are confined to do, re, mi, so, and la. According to Kodaly, Orff, and other theorists in music education, restriction to these five tones simplifies matters considerably, especially for less experienced students.  OTHER MUSIC EDUCATION LINKS  New Zealand Society for Music Education aMUSE - Association of Music Educators (Vic) - was called VSMA Australian Society for Music Education: ASME The Callaway International Resource for Music Education (CIRCME) Dalcroze Council of Australia AusDance - Australian Dance Council Music Council of Australia Infoxchange EdNA Online - Education Network Australia