Music education in the United States schools. The Kodaly Method was developed in Hungary by Zoltan Kodaly. The Orff-Schulwerk Method was developed by Carl Orff, the German composer who wrote Carmina Burana. The Dalcroze-Eurythmics Method was developed in Switzerland by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, who was teaching at the Geneva Conservatory at the time. All three methods place an emphasis on activity and learning by doing. The Kodaly Method is known best for its use of solfege syllables and corresponding hand signals. The Orff-Schulwerk Method is most famous for its use of varying sizes of xylophones and glockenspiels, known as "Orff instruments." The Dalcroze-Eurythimics Method's most visible characteristic
Cantus Buranus Cantus Buranus Cantus Buranus is an album by the German medieval revival band Corvus Corax that employs the medieval text "Carmina Burana". "Cantus Buranus" is a stage opera of eleven poems from "Carmina Burana" for orchestra, choir and medieval instruments, incorporating medieval, classical and modern musical idioms. It is not the first time Corvus Corax has worked with "Carmina Burana"; the band Tanzwut (which is another Corvus Corax project) used the poems "Fautue" and "Caupona" in their album "Ihr Wolltet Spass". The "Cantus Buranus" CD was released August 8, 2005 by Roadrunner Records. A live recording in Berlin spawned a