Did you know that all children are musical?

Have you ever wondered what you can do to nurture the musical growth of your child, regardless of your own musical ability?

Experience Music Together^® and find out how important--and how much fun--your role can be! Each class includes songs, rhythmic rhymes, movement, and instrument play. These activities are presented as informal, non-performance-oriented musical experiences--developmentally appropriate for children and easy for parents and caregivers--regardless of their own musical ability.

Our Music Together classes build on your child's natural enthusiasm for music and movement. We'll help you provide your child with the basic musical skills needed to enjoy school and social musical activities, and to study an instrument should he or she choose to do so.

What we are

Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners and the adults who love them! Research-based and developmentally appropriate, the Music Together curriculum helps families, caregivers, and early childhood professionals rediscover the pleasure in and educational value of informal musical experiences. We offer three 10-week semesters and one 6-week summer session per year. Each class is 45 minutes long and meets once each week.

where we are

During the 3-semester school year, we offer classes in 7 locations in southern and mid-Westchester, New York: Briarcliff, Chappaqua, Dobbs Ferry, Mount Kisco, Scarsdale, Tarrytown, and Tuckahoe! During the summer, we offer classes in most of our locations. Our classes are for children from birth through kindergarten age, accompanied by a parent and/or other adult caregiver.

look

To take a look at a class, click here for an online video.
To watch parent interviews, click here for an online video.
To watch teacher interviews, click here for an online video.

Listen

To hear song samples, click here. Or listen to our Music Together founders and experts, director Kenneth K. Guilmartin and director of research Lili M. Levinowitz, talking to Caucus: New Jersey about our program. And check out Music Together's "'Hello Song' Around the World Music Video"!

 

 

Read

Are all children really musical? If so, why should babies and young children learn to make music themselves, instead of just listening to it? Learn the answers to these questions in recent articles published in the popular (Parents Mag Page 1 and Page 2) and academic (Proc Natl Acad Sci) press. And to read articles about the Music Together program, go to Music Together's National Web site or download this article from Utne Reader, itself excerpted from an issue of Chronogram.

The benefits of music-making for babies and children may be something you're prepared to accept, but you may still question the benefits for you, the adult. If so, take a look at this essay (part of NPR's "This I Believe" series) by Brian Eno. It'll make your heart--and body--sing!