Level I This course includes the basic study of Orff techniques such as the pentatonic scale, simple borduns, the ostinato, and playing pitched and unpitched percussion instruments and the soprano recorder. Topics and skills in this highly participatory course will also include vocal and rhythmic training, movement, and improvisation. A degree in music or strong musicianship is required.

Level II This course builds on the foundations laid in Level I. Folk melodies, all diatonic modes, mixed meter, and rhythms from many parts of the world are included. Accompaniments, musical forms, and improvisations are more complex. Both alto and soprano recorders are studied. Music, movement, and speech are synthesized in cooperative learning lessons. Successful completion of an AOSA approved Level I course is required.

For more information about Orff Schulwerk

For Nazareth Students:

1. Complete the Orff Levels Courses registration/screening form. If you are not sure that the course is the right fit for you, please e-mail Dr. Koster, kkoster8@naz.edu
2. Also complete the usual Naz course registration process (MED550, Summer B, 2023). Registration opens January 23.

Tuition: $1045/credit hour x 3 credits = $3,135*
Registration Fee: $30
Graduate Supplemental Fee: $110/semester
Total: $3,275

* Rate subject to change.  For details, please reach out to Dr. Keith Koster or Kathleen Sullivan

For non Nazareth Students:

1. Complete the Orff Levels Courses registration/screening form. If you are not sure that the course is the right fit for you, please e-mail Dr. Koster, kkoster8@naz.edu
2. Complete the top half of the Nazareth College Graduate Non-Matriculated Student Approval Form and email that form to Dr. Keith Koster, Nazareth Graduate Music Education Program Director, kkoster8@naz.edu, or mail to her attention at Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.
3. The Nazareth Registration & Records Office will send you confirmation along with information about how to register for MED550-50 Orff Schulwerk Level I; MED560-60 Orff Schulwerk Level II. You will also receive a bill for the course.
4. Complete the payment process. Once payment has been received, you will be officially enrolled in the course.

For Nazareth Students:

1. Complete the Orff Levels Courses registration/screening form. If you are not sure that the course is the right fit for you, please e-mail Dr. Koster, kkoster8@naz.edu
2. Also complete the usual Naz course registration process (MED550, Summer B, 2023). Registration opens January 23.

Tuition: $1045/credit hour x 3 credits = $3,135*
Registration Fee: $30
Total: $3,165

* Rate subject to change.  For details, please reach out to Dr. Keith Koster or Kathleen Sullivan

For non Nazareth Students:

1. Complete the Orff Levels Courses registration/screening form. If you are not sure that the course is the right fit for you, please e-mail Dr. Koster, kkoster8@naz.edu
2. Complete the top half of the Nazareth College Graduate Non-Matriculated Student Approval Form and email that form to Dr. Keith Koster, Nazareth Graduate Music Education Program Director, kkoster8@naz.edu, or mail to her attention at Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.
3. The Nazareth Registration & Records Office will send you confirmation along with information about how to register for MED550-50 Orff Schulwerk Level I; MED560-60 Orff Schulwerk Level II. You will also receive a bill for the course.
4. Complete the payment process. Once payment has been received, you will be officially enrolled in the course.

Cost (includes registration fee $30):

Note: If you are an undergraduate student at Nazareth College OR at another institution, get approval from Dr. Koster (kkoster8@naz.edu) by completing step 1, before you pay.

1. Complete the Orff Levels Courses registration/screening form. If you are not sure that the course is the right fit for you, please also e-mail Dr. Koster, kkoster8@naz.edu
2. Pay by credit card online or by a check or purchase order made payable to Nazareth College, mailed to Dr. Keith Koster, School of Music, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618

Cost (includes registration fee $30)

Complete the Orff Levels Courses registration/screening form. If you are not sure that the course is the right fit for you, please also e-mail Dr. Koster, kkoster8@naz.edu

Pay by credit card online or by a check or purchase order made payable to Nazareth College, mailed to Dr. Keith Koster, School of Music, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618

• All required materials will be available in the Orff Levels Bookstore located near your classroom. Information about purchase options will be sent to students on June 1, 2023.
• One source is Music Is Elementary which has a page for this Nazareth course that includes an offer for free shipping. (Order by June 15 to be sure your order arrives in time.)

Required Materials Level I

All Level I's will need a Baroque fingered soprano recorder. These will be available for purchase in the bookstore.

• Beginners & Intermediates: Sweet Pipes Soprano Recorder Book I, Burakoff & Hettrick and Sweet Pipes Duet Time, Vol. 2
• Intermediate: In addition to above, Descants in Consort, Simpson
• Advanced: Hugh Orr Soprano, Vol. II
• Music For Children Vol. 1-Murray Edition
• Elementaria-Gunild Keetman
• Bring to class: rhymes, pentatonic folk song collection, and a computer with notation software.
• Comfortable clothes for moving all day 

Required Materials Level II

• Music for Children Volume I. Murray Edition
• Music for Children Volume II. Murray Edition
• Music for Children Volume IV. Murray Edition
• Spielbuch für Xylophon Book II by Gunild Keetman, Schott Publications
• Rhythmische übung, Gunild Keetman, Schott Publications
• Bring to class: rhymes, pentatonic folk song collection, and a computer with notation software.
• Beginners and Intermediates: The Recorder Guide, Kulbach and Nitka
• Advanced: Hugh Orr Alto Volume II
• Level II's need baroque fingered sopranos and altos. These will be available for purchase through the bookstore.
• In addition, students may bring other voices of recorders.  Other voices of recorders will be available in the bookstore.

There are no specific materials required for movement classes.

LEVEL ONE:
8:30 – 9:30 Basic
9:30 – 10:30 Basic
10:45 – 12:00 Movement
12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 – 2:15 Recorder
2:15 – 3:30 Basic
3:30 – 4:00 Special Topics/Extended Basic

LEVEL TWO: 
8:30 – 9:45 Movement
10:00 – 11:00 Basic
11:00 – 12:00 Basic
12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 – 2:15 Basic
2:15 – 3:30 Recorder
3:30 – 4:00 Special Topics/Extended Basic

BethAnn Hepburn, M.A. Music Education, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. BethAnn teaches general music and choir for Streetsboro City Schools. BethAnn is the music mentor for the Ohio Department of Education Fine Arts Cohort for new teachers. She serves as the Ohio Music Education Association’s Professional Development Chair for General Music and is on the NAfME General Music Council. She is a frequent presenter and Teacher Educator for AOSA.
She is a former National Board Member for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association and on the AOSA Mentorship committee. BethAnn is co-author of Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Classroom Books 1 -4. She is a Ph. D. candidate in Music Education at Kent State University.

Connie Van Engen is the music specialist at Bell Prairie Elementary and was named Teacher of the Year in 2013 for the North Kansas City schools. She has served as AOSA Region III Representative and Recording Secretary. She is the National Conference Chair for the 2022 AOSA Professional Development Conference in Kansas City. Connie is an active presenter in the Orff Schulwerk approach. She teaches Level II Orff Schulwerk Basic Pedagogy at Trinity University in Texas and Baker University in Kansas.

Karen Medley has over 40 years’ experience teaching children in public elementary school music programs in the Pentucket Regional School District (MA), Clark County Schools (Las Vegas, NV), Memphis City Schools, and Rochester City Schools (NY). She earned a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music with a Concentration in Orff Studies from the University of Memphis where she also completed her Orff Teacher Education Levels I-III and Master Class. 

Presenter at more than a dozen AOSA National Conferences, Karen is a frequent presenter for workshops, residencies, in-services and teacher education courses across the United States, including Hawai’i and Alaska. Currently, Karen teaches in summer teacher-education programs through the University of Alaska (Fairbanks), the University of Alaska (Anchorage), and Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. Karen has taught many courses and workshops introducing classroom and preschool teachers to Orff-Schulwerk. In 1983 and again in 1995 she was a guest lecturer in New Zealand, presenting courses and workshops through the Teacher’s College of Auckland University and throughout the country. 

Karen has directed several children’s choruses whose performances include singing Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, opening the National Blues Awards, performing at the 1989 AOSA National Conference in Atlanta, and singing Carmina Burana and The Nutcracker with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. A recipient of the Rotary Award for Teacher Excellence in Memphis City Schools, the Homegrown Heroes award, Clark County Schools, and the Sachem Award from Pentucket Regional Schools. Karen is a contributing writer for Music and You (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill), and her arrangements have been featured in The World Sings: International Folk Songs (Memphis Musicraft Pub.) and Las Vegas Writes III.

Karen served on the AOSA National Board of Trustees for more than thirteen years as Regional Representative for two terms, as Chair of the Post Level III Committee, as a member of the Guidelines Revision Committee, and as National Conference Chairperson for four AOSA National Conferences.