Making It Up As You Go

The first collection of essays by Isabel McNeill Carley, this book gathers her best written work, both previously published and unpublished, in a work full of inspiration, commentary, personal memoir and incisive, helpful insights into teaching and the Orff Approach. This collection of twenty-one essays from the pen of one of our most thoughtful pioneers is a landmark publication. Altogether this is a collection to savour, to dip into and read in bits and pieces, or from cover to cover. It clarifies important, perhaps sometimes overlooked, understandings from the dawn of the development of Orff pedagogy and inspires belief in the model, and its ongoing relevance. – Catherine West, Ostinato (Orff Canada)