What Is Music Together^®?

Music Together offers fun, playful, interactive music and movement classes for babies through kindergarteners with their parents and caregivers. These classes provide a rich environment in which to explore the tonal and rhythmic elements of music through songs, chants, instrument play, and expressive dance. For reinforcement at home, families are provided with a CD of the current semester’s songs and a corresponding illustrated songbook. The curriculum includes original, as well as traditional, songs and chants in a variety of tonalities, meters, and cultural styles. Classes meet once a week for 45 minutes and are typically made up of 6-12 children with their accompanying adult(s). There are three 10 week semesters per year plus an abbreviated summer session.

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Basic Principles of the Music Together Philosophy

I. All children are musical.
II. Therefore, all children can achieve basic music competence. *CMYC defines basic music competence as audiation and expression of meter by rhythmically accurate movement and tonality by in-tune singing.
III. The participation and modeling of parents and caregivers, regardless of their musical ability, is essential to a child’s musical growth.
IV. This growth is best achieved in a playful, developmentally appropriate, non-performance-oriented learning environment that is musically rich yet immediately accessible to the child’s - and the adult’s! - participation.

You may notice the following when you observe class:

• Mixed ages
• Parent education during class
• Variety of tonalities and meters
• Multi-modal learning experiences
• Modeling of and opportunity for creativity and improvisation
• Expectation that each child will participate at his own level of development
• Facilitation of each adult’s music and movement experience.