About Music Together Family Classes with Household Harmony
About the Music Together Preschool Program
About Intergenerational Music Together Family Classes
Music Together is. . .
- A community of families moving and grooving, sharing songs, basic instrument play, rhythmic rhymes and simple, fun dancing in a relaxed, playful, non-performance-oriented setting.
- Music learned through developmentally appropriate activities that support and respect the unique learning styles of very young children.
- Babies, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners participating at their own levels in family-style classes of mixed ages.
- Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nannies--all caregivers--contributing to the enrichment of their child(ren)'s music environment, regardless of their own musical abilities.
- A new song collection every session for three years, featuring great arrangements of original and traditional songs in a wide variety of tonalities, meters and cultural styles.
45 minutes of PURE FUN every week!
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Music Together is an internationally acclaimed early childhood music program for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners and the adults who love them.
First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement. Its creators, Ken Guilmartin and Dr. Lili M. Levinowitz, are still teaching Music Together classes at the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, New Jersey, and they continue to study, refine and refresh the program.
Music Together classes are based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning. By emphasizing actual music experiences rather than concepts about music, Music Together introduces children to the pleasures of making music instead of passively receiving it from CDs or TV.
Central to the Music Together approach is the principle that young children learn best from the powerful role model of parents and other caregivers who are actively making music. The program brings families together by providing a rich musical environment in the classroom and by facilitating family participation in spontaneous musical activity at home within the context of daily life.
A child can attend Music Together from birth through age five, thus experiencing each of the nine song collections. In step with the recommendations of Dr. Maria Montessori and other child development researchers, Music Together groups children of a variety of ages together in order to foster natural, family-style learning. Younger children enjoy watching and imitating older ones; older children learn by leading younger ones; and adults are happy because the whole family can go to class together. Each child participates at his or her own level in singing, moving, chanting, listening, watching, or exploring musical instruments. Any caregivers--parents, grandparents, nanny--can bring the children. The whole family is welcome for this important family music experience.
Music Together is committed to helping families, caregivers and early childhood professionals rediscover the pleasure and educational value of informal music experiences. All teachers have successfully completed Music Together's training program. Music Together applies the latest research in early childhood music development to the program as a curriculum pioneer since 1987.