El Orff-Schulwerk en España a través de sus divulgadores

Joaquín  de la Hoz-Díaz; Virginia Sánchez-López; Isabel M.ª Ayala-Herrera

doi:10.5209/reciem.98451

Joaquín de la Hoz-Díaz Universidad de Jaén https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3361-2551
Virginia Sánchez-López Universidad de Jaén https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2619-7502
Isabel M.ª Ayala-Herrera Universidad de Jaén https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1383-4795

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/reciem.98451

Keywords: Orff-Schulwerk, reception of active methodologies, mediating agents, music education, Spain, interview

Abstract

Professionals involved with the Orff-Schulwerk in Spain have had few opportunities to share that part of their lives in an academic context. Their testimonies are essential to reconstructing the processes by which active music education methodologies have circulated and been received, from their points of origin to the various regions where they have been adopted and developed. This article aims to provide an overview of various aspects of the Orff-Schulwerk in Spain, based on the perceptions, experiences, and narratives of specialists who have played—and continue to play—a significant role in promoting and implementing this pedagogical approach. To that end, a qualitative research design was employed, centered on a strongly structured biographical interview, validated by experts and conducted with 24 participants. The data collected through this instrument were coded into eight categories addressing issues such as training in the method and associated scholarships, conceptual understandings of the approach, the role of government policy, strengths and weaknesses in its implementation, and future prospects, among others. The analysis offers an in-depth study from which names, opinions, criticisms, and anecdotes emerge—elements not found in previous literature. Cross-analysis of the diverse perspectives allows for a deeper understanding of the arrival and expansion of the Orff-Schulwerk in Spain. Furthermore, the study reveals the extensive human network formed around this pedagogical approach and its main national circuits. Ultimately, the findings underscore the ongoing efforts of its proponents to ensure that music education in general—and the Orff-Schulwerk in particular—maintains a prominent place in the Spanish educational system, which has often neglected or instrumentalized the arts.

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Author Biographies

Joaquín de la Hoz-Díaz, Universidad de Jaén

PhD student in Teaching Innovation and Teacher Training and FPU in the area of Music at the University of Jaén. He completed his studies of the Degree in Primary Education with specialities in Music Education and Special Education at the University of Jaén in 2019. She holds a Master's Degree in Psychopedagogy from the University of Seville (2020) and the Master's Degree in Musicology from the University of La Rioja (2023). In 2016 she completed her Professional Music Studies in the speciality of Clarinet at the Conservatorio ‘María de Molina’ in Úbeda. He has taken PDI training courses and workshops and courses in active courses in active musical pedagogies, such as the one given by Sofía López-Ibor at the
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2022. He has been speaker and organising committee of
various international congresses, the last one on ‘Musicology and festivals’, held in 2022 at the International University in 2022 at the International University of Andalusia, Baeza. Among his
publications include the chapter ‘Movimiento, ritmo y desarrollo musical en in a collective book published by Editorial Morata and several articles in journals such as Per Musi, Revista de Musicología or Resonancias. Since 2017 he has been deputy musical director of the Musical Association ‘Cristóbal Marín’ of Villacarrillo (Jaén).

Virginia Sánchez-López, Universidad de Jaén

Professor of Didactics of Musical Expression at the University of Jaén. She is head of the PAIDI research group ‘Music and Cultural Studies’ HUM-942 (https://grupomusec.wixsite.com/investigacion). Her research focuses on music programming for young audiences, music education and its transdisciplinarity, music and gender, and the recovery, study and dissemination of Andalusian musical heritage. She has been the coordinator of the school, family and social educational concerts of the Early Music Festival of Úbeda and Baeza since 2005, a task that has been recognised as a Knowledge Transfer activity through OTRI Contracts (art. 83 LOU). Her publications include the book Música, prensa y sociedad en la provincia de Jaén durante el siglo XIX (2014), which was awarded the ‘Cronista Cazabán’ Prize by the Instituto de Estudios Giennenses (Diputación Provincial de Jaén) for the best research monograph on a Jaén subject. She is also the author of articles and chapters published in national and international journals and publishers of high quality and impact.

Isabel M.ª Ayala-Herrera, Universidad de Jaén

Professor of Didactics of Musical Expression at the University of Jaén. Degree in History and Science of Music, History of Art, Higher Degree in Music (Flute) and PhD from the University of Granada with the thesis ‘Música y municipio: marco normativo y administración de las bandas civiles en España (1931-1986). Study in the province of Jaén’ (2013), https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/31697, a reference in the field.

In addition to music bands in Spain, his research interests focus on music education and educational innovation through trans- and interdisciplinarity, and on the rescue and study of Jaén's musical heritage, especially traditional music and local culture (Corpus de Literatura Oral, https://corpusdeliteraturaoral.ujaen.es/). In recent years she has been attracted by historical soundscapes from the perspective of Digital Humanities, in connection with the new social challenges (IP2 of the FEDER project ‘Sound and city: sound cartographies of contemporary Jaén (XIX-XXI)’). He has published in renowned publishers and journals, disseminating the main results of his work through various transfer activities.

In the field of cultural and academic management, she has been director of the Secretariat of Cultural Activities at the University of Jaén and has coordinated the Master's Degree in Teaching at the University of Jaén since the 2013/2014 academic year.

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