I was looking for Piatti, which led me to ‘clash cymbals’ which I find oddly uncommon to have as the default. (As a drummer growing up and doing percussion in school, I’ve never heard that one before).
Anyway, then I figured I would try to rename Clash Cymbal, which apparently is not possible(?). So I duplicated it. But this is when I noticed, for the first time ever, they belong to a family known as ‘Orff Instruments.’ I’ve never once heard this before. You can see the list below.
I searched this, but it appears to be associated with this early education methodology. For those of us unfamiliar with early childhood pedagogy, and looking to write orchestral music, I don’t exactly see the point of this?
Can I remove this family and ensure everything is just in normal pitched or unpitched percussion?
Finally, with my duplicated “Clash Cymbal” now renamed Piatti, I have observed the NotePerformer percussion map will not connect to it. I am aware of how to manually override this, but I would have to do it every time I start a new project. Is there any way to save/overwrite a percussion map default, so every time in the future when I add a piatti it will correctly connect?
The Orff Schulwerk , or simply the Orff Approach , is a developmental approach used in music education. It combines music, movement, drama, and speech into lessons that are similar to a child’s world of play. It was developed by the German composer Carl Orff (1895–1982) and colleague Gunild Keetman during the 1920s. Orff worked until the end of his life to continue the development and spread of his teaching method.
Orff considered the percussive rhythm as a natural basic form of human expression. Orff and colleague Gunild Keetman co-composed much of the music for the five volume series, Music for Children. These volumes, first published in 1950, are still available and used today. Music played on Orff instruments is often very simple and easy to play even for first time musicians.
Some of the instruments within the approach include miniature xylophones, marimbas, [glockenspiels]
(Glockenspiel - Wikipedia) and metallophones; all of which have removable bars, resonating columns to project the sound, and are easily transported and stored. Orff teachers also use different sized drums, recorders and non-pitched percussion instruments “to round out the songs that are sung and played”.[1]The Orff approach also requires that children sing, chant, clap, dance, pat and snap fingers along to melodies and rhythms.[1]
Perhaps, I should have chosen a different title – it appears you copied and pasted from the wikipedia article I linked to; my bigger question was more: “What for?” - wondering why the team felt his was essential to include as its own family, since by and large most people in the orchestral & scoring world don’t refer to these instruments as ‘Orff,’ at least that I know of.
When I use the setup picker, I don’t need to see my percussion instruments listed under this family.
Understood. Since I don’t work in education circles I’ve never heard it before. It seems I can just ignore it, I was just surprised since using Dorico for awhile I haven’t even noticed this family before - but apparently the instruments are duplicated into the normal percussion as well.
Hoping someone can help me with my Clash Cymbal vs. Piatti Percussion map question.
