Music Together® is an internationally recognized, fun-filled music and movement program for children from birth through grade two and the adults who love them. Originally offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.
The Music Together approach to early childhood music development is based on the belief that music ability is as much a basic life skill as walking and talking. We believe all children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat and participate with confidence and pleasure in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning. Our classes provide a high quality, developmentally appropriate curriculum for children, birth through grade two, with playful activities to promote such primary music development.
Children and their parents or primary caregivers meet 45 minutes per week to experience new songs, chants, movement activities, and instrumental jam sessions. In class, you and your child will experience the joy of actual music-making and the freedom to respond spontaneously to those experiences. Because young children instinctively respond to and imitate their loved ones, the active participation of parents and caregivers - regardless of musical ability! - is an essential part of the rich musical environment we create.
Very young children learn best through play, so our teachers are specially trained to foster an enjoyable, easy atmosphere where adults can relax as they play musically with their children. In class, you and your child will have many opportunities to create and play - making up new words to songs, improvising rhythms, dancing freely or simply observing and taking it all in.
Babies 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.
