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Introduction
We often think of Gunild Keetman. We play
and listen to her music and we remember the lovable person,
the inspiring music and movement teacher, composer and
co-author of Orff-Schulwerk. Her decisive contribution to
Orff-Schulwerk was confirmed by Carl Orff: "It was to her
that I gave the task of trying out the different playing
techniques of the newly-developed barred instruments. It was
she who sketched out the first pieces for these instruments.
I am not exaggerating when I say that without Keetman's
decisive contribution through her double talent, the
Schulwerk could never have come into
being.l
A series of essays about her life and
work has already appeared. In this commemorative book, it is
not our intention to publish studies on either musicology or
music and dance education, but rather to let contemporary
witnesses have their say - those who saw Gunild Keetman at
work, through playing and learning with children and
students, through her work in radio and television, and when
making music with colleagues. In many contributions it is a
question of friendship.
Such a mosaic, composed of the
many-coloured pebbles put together from several authors is
perhaps the best way of creating a picture of Gunild
Keetman: of the clever and witty, introvert rather than
extravert, highly gifted woman in the fields of dance, music
and education.
With this book we celebrate her 100th
birthday on 5 June 2004. We are grateful for the initiative
of the Carl Orff Foundation, the co-authors, Margaret
Murray, the translator and Hannelore Gassner, the archivist
at the Orff Centre in Munich, the photographers, the
publishers and the many helpers.
Minna Ronnefeld
Hermann Regner
1. Orff 1978, p 67
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