"Carl Orff’s approach to music education is based on the premise that feeling precedes intellectual understanding." (Phillips, 2013), this meaning that infants who are unable to speak and communication through writing are able to express themselves through music, and their bodies own rhythm Orff uses this effectively through a list of objectives, 

• To use speech and movement natural to the child as the 

springboard for musical experiences.

• To give an immediacy of enjoyment and meaning to the child 

through active participation in all experiences.

• To encourage the feeling that speech and movement, play and 

song are one.

• To give a completely physical, non-intellectual background in 

rhythm and melody, thus laying the foundation of experience so 

necessary to a later understanding of music and musical 

notation.

• To give experience in the component parts of the basic 

elements of music: in rhythmic experiences, by beginning with 

the rhythmic pattern of a word, then two words gradually 

building in complexity into the phrase and period; in melodic experiences, by beginning with the natural chant of childhood 

(the falling minor third s-m), gradually adding other tones of the 

pentatonic scale, tones of other modes, and finally the major 

and then minor scales. 

• To cultivate the musical imagination – both rhythmic and 

melodic – and thus to develop the creative ability to improvise.

• To cultivate individual creativity as well as a feeling for, and the 

ability to participate in, ensemble activities. (Phillips, 2013)

Orff also offers a range of instruments that shoul be used by the children to accompany their voices, Alto Xylophone, Sixteen and twenty inch Timpani, Soprano Xylophone Alto Metallophone, Soprano Glockenspiel, Bass Xylophone, Soprano Metallophone and Bass Metallophone (Phillips, 2013).  By using these various instuments to accompany a child's learning, the children will also be able to grow further in musical knowledge, and be confident when handling instruments.

By undertaking a lesson using the Orff approach, some key concepts learnt are rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, form, and may involve other elements of music. These concepts are learnt through chanting, singing, movement an playing with instruments an will assist in future learning with improvisation or composing their own music. (About, 2013)