Have you ever wondered what you can do to nurture the musical growth of your child, regardless of you own musical ability?
Experience Music Together® and find out how important--and how fun--your role can be!
We believe that music ability is as much a basic life skill as walking or talking, and that all children can achieve basic competence in music provided their early music environment is rich.
Basic Music Competence is defined as the ability to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence and pleasure in the music of our culture, including instrumental study if one so chooses.
Music Together is a
nationally recognized early childhood music program that began as an educational project of the Center of Music and Young Children in 1985. Through ongoing research and development, the program continues to evolve and expand. Through centers nationwide, Music Together touches thousands of children and their parents by bringing music-making into family life.
Music Together classes are based on the idea that making music with children, in the family, and in a community of families......
- Enriches the lives of both children and parents
- Promotes musical growth in children, optimizing musical APTITUDE and future success in music
- Should be FUN!
Music Together is a music and movement approach that develops every child's opportunity for BASIC MUSIC COMPETENCE by encouraging
music experience rather than the learning of information about music. Children experience the various macro and micro beats that are in music, experiment with their vocal mechanisms in high and low ranges, learn to use their upper and lower adjustments to sing, and repeat both rhythm patterns and tonal patterns in a variety of meters and modalities. They are also exposed to the various chord structures contained in eastern and western music.
A Music Together class is not a "music lesson".
It is not performance-based, nor is it a model for musical perfection.
It IS a model for DOING music with your child!
It is a relaxed, playful, participatory, EXPLORATORY experience.
Infants coo, gurgle, and flex their torsos in response to music. Toddlers shake rattles, bounce to the beat, and sing occasional notes. Three-year-olds often have favorite songs and instruments to play and can "lose themselves" in music. Four-year-olds like to have an effect on the activity--creating ways to move or inventing new words to songs.