Music for children: Comparing selections of "Carmina Burana" with Orff Schulwerk.

In this article, the musical qualities of Orff Schulwerk were compared with two movements of Carmina Burana that include a children's choir—Amor volat undique and Tempus est iocundum. The author examines the commonalities in elemental forms, contrasting timbres and dynamics, elemental music, modal melodies, and instrumentation between the two. The article shows that Orff's early work in the Guntherschule possibly influenced his compositional techniques in Carmina Burana, and that his ideas continued to unfold as he developed the Schulwerk for children, particularly in the Music for Children volumes.