The Music Together Philosophy
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The Music Together® program is based on research that suggests that all children can learn to sing in tune and move in rhythm, as long as they grow up in a family that sings and plays in musical ways, especially during the first several years of life while the brain is growing rapidly.
Since young children learn best through meaningful interaction with adults with whom they share a close bond, the Music Together® music and classes are designed to inspire the whole family to sing and play together and integrate music-making into every day.
Educational Approach
Music Immersion
Since children learn by watching, listening, and playing, our approach is to immerse the children in a rich musical environment full of interesting sounds, movements, rhythms, meters, and tonalities. With various kinds of instruments to explore, silly things to laugh at, and lots of different models to follow, children learn how to make music, naturally.
Child-Centered
In Music Together®, children get to respond to the music activities in their own way and in their own time. There is no expectation to sit still, perform on cue, and it isn't about learning to follow directions. The class environment is structured, but free. This creates the disposition to try new things and stimulates the learning cycle of play, discovery, practice, and mastery.
Parent/Caregiver Model
A child's favorite and most influential model is an adult with whom they have a close bond- that's you! There is no need for music knowledge or skill; come prepared to be silly and have fun. You'll learn engaging music activities you can do at home, and with the help of the songbook and recordings, support your child’s music learning and overall development all week long.
Why Music?
Music is a uniquely human way of knowing the world around us, learning who we are, expressing feelings when we have no words, and understanding things with our hearts when we can't with our minds. And it starts in the first days and years of life.
Music forges unique connections in the brain, integrating mind, body, and emotions. Immersion in an interactive, musically rich environment like Music Together® fosters children's music skills as well as their growth and development in many other areas essential to success in school and life, such as creativity, self-expression, and confidence. It supports language, cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development and helps them have a positive attitude toward learning.
New Songs Each Session
Music Together music is designed to inspire the whole family to listen and play along. The class fee includes a beautifully illustrated songbook and recordings of the award-winning music for home use.
Each song collection includes original songs and traditional tunes from a range of musical styles, including folk, blues, jazz, and world music with varied cultural origins, tonalities and meters. The recordings contain the songs, rhythmic chants, and tonal and rhythm patterns we learn in class. The arrangements are fun and sophisticated, and the tunes are catchy; you might find yourself singing Music Together songs even when your kids aren't around!
With twelve song collections rotated over three years, your family will build a large, varied repertoire of beloved songs.
Learn more about the song selection process on the Music Together Worldwide site
Music Together® Beginnings
1985, when composer Kenneth K. Guilmartin began to develop the Music Together® program, he and coauthor Dr. Lili M. Levinowitz quickly realized that they would have to look past accepted music education practices to the field of early childhood development. After all, the best, most engaging song repertoire in the world would be useless if children couldn't receive and process musical information in developmentally appropriate ways.
So Ken and Lili turned to research in neuroscience and psychology in addition to early childhood learning theory. What they were searching for was insight into how children learn, how a child's brain processes and organizes music, and how developmentally appropriate learning can be supported. The end result of this research was principles that are still the cornerstone of the Music Together philosophy today.
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