Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program that began as an educational project of the Center of Music and Young Children, in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1985. Through ongoing research and development, the program continues to evolve and expand. Through centers around the world, Music Together touches hundreds of thousands of children and their parents by bringing music-making into family life.
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 MAKING music together 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. Threes and fours often have favorite songs and instruments to play and can "lose themselves" in music. Older children like to have an effect on the activity--creating ways to move or inventing new words to songs.
Here in Shanghai, international families from the expat community join together with their infants, toddlers and preschoolers in a 45-min, weekly, music and movement activity designed to engage the whole family.
Free trial classes available.