Development of creative skills of preschoolers with the help of musical improvisation according to the method of K. Orfa

Saveleva Irina Petrovna, Kindyasheva Alyona Sergeevna

"Orf-pedagogy", focused on the child, considers music as a basic system similar to speech. Orf is an approach as an effective way of education and training through art and creativity, based on the unity and interrelation of music, speech and movement. In this article, the authors consider the possibilities of "Orf-pedagogy" through the tools of speech exercises, sounding gestures, musical-speech games, poetic music-making, elementary musical theater. The improvisational principle, which permeates all types of creative activity of preschoolers, is integrated and successfully implements the basic pedagogical concept - a phylogenetic approach to musical education, the integration of music, movement and speech, the primacy of practice over theory, a democratic approach in communication between a child and a teacher, the need for reflection.

Keywords:improvisation, musical improvisation, creative skills, music making, Orf-pedagogy, sounding gestures, speech exercises.