Music Together is a nationally recognized, research-based early childhood music program that began as an educational project of the Center for Music and Young Children in 1985. With centers worldwide, Music Together touches and encourages thousands of children and parents to bring the joy of making music into their lives and homes.

Music Together classes are designed to....

• enrich the lives of children and parents
• promote musical growth in children, making the most of their musical aptitude and future success in music
• be a lot of fun!

A Music Together class is NOT a 'music lesson'. It is not focused on performance, nor is it a model for musical perfection.

It IS a model for DOING music with your child. It IS a relaxed, playful, participatory experience to share with your child.

And while everyone is having fun, your child is being nurtured in the ways necessary for his or her musical growth, allowing musical intelligence to develop, and being given a foundation for future musical achievement.


Music Together classes provide several ways to support musical development

• by enriching the musical resources of families
• by providing playful, interactive ways to focus on tonal and rhythmic components of music
• large and small movement activities
• free dance
• free percussion instrument play along 'jam sessions'
• opportunities for improvisation by children and parents
• participation in ways that are comfortable to the participant

During class, the teacher offers parent education so that you can begin to recognize musical behavior and notice musical development. The instructor can also provide assessment of your child's musical stage of development.

How the Music Together experience can enrich your family's life

• The Music Together curriculum expands your family's musical repertoire. Each semester you will receive a CD and beautifully illustrated songbook. The collection includes traditional songs, Music Together originals, unusual lullabies, and rhythmic chants. The song material balances tonalities, meters, and cultural styles, exposing your child to a wide diversity of musical elements.

• Music Together classes will provide a source of ideas to bring music making into your daily activities. You can easily recreate the class activities and you will discover your own creativity is stimulated . . . you will find even more ways to connect and play with your child.

• You will learn how to listen to your child for musical behavior and development and be able to support and encourage their natural musical inclinations. You will understand better the process by which your child can attain basic music competence in the first few years of his or her life.

  
  

• follow your child’s lead. If your child is feeling quiet and wants to sit on your lap, then do that, happily singing and rocking, clapping, swaying all the time.
• If your child is up and moving, or experimenting with an instrument in a new way, mimic them-make a bit of a game out of it.
• Make this your time to play with your child while making music. There is no ‘perfect’ way to participate.
• The main requirement is that you have fun. Children do what they see their parents do- if you hope for your child’s innate musician to come out, then model musical behavior-singing, dancing, being silly- so that they will follow your lead.

All Children are musical

• Formal music training cannot teach a child to be musical or to find joy or inspiration in music. A musical disposition-- or the motivation to be musical all one's life -- is the result of positive, happy, fulfilling experiences and associations with music in childhood.

• Parents are, by far, the most important role models in this regard. Music Together is committed to supporting and facilitating parents' efforts to create and sustain a rich music environment at home. This will encourage your child's natural process of musical growth and will ensure the realization of your child's inborn music potential.

• As your understanding of childhood music development deepens, so will your appreciation of how your child responds to music, and your musical interaction with your child will become more interesting and meaningful. Above all, it will compel you to provide a wealth of musical experiences for your child, from which you may cultivate and share your own love of music. You will be able to best nurture your child's emerging musical self.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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