Music Together at the Arts Center

Join us for the Fall session which begins Sept 14th

Have you ever wondered what you can do to nurture the musical growth of a child, regardless of your own musical abilities? Experience Music Together^® and find out how important - and how FUN your role can be.The Music Together® program encourages your child's innate ability to sing in tune, create rhythms and participate in music making with joy and confidence. Regardless of your own musical background, as parent or caregiver, your participation is inspirational for children to develop musically.

Musical participation is not based on talent, but on exposure and experience at a young age. Exposure at a young age brings confidence with music throughout life.

Giving children and parents access to music offers an opportunity to be more attuned to and appreciative of music and the arts in general.

Developed from research at the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, New Jersey, this program is based on the belief that all children are musical. The program encourages your child's innate ability to sing in tune, create rhythms, and participate in music making with joy and confidence. Children experience various rhythms, meters, various keys, they will learn how to use their upper and lower registers, experiment with different instruments in a comfortable, encouraging environment.

Our classes are known to be just as much fun for the parents! Parents active participation is essential in class, and each week they discover fun ways to play musically with their child. Our classes are lso a great way to meet other families in the community.

45 minutes of pure fun with your child!!!!! Classes include singing, rhythmical rhymes, finger play, tonal patterns, instrument play and movement. What a beautiful time for you and your child.

A Music Together Class is

* 45 minutes of PURE FUN with your child each week for 10 weeks!
* A community of families sharing songs, instrument play, rhythm chants and movement activities 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.
* Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers participating at their own levels in family-style classes of mixed ages. Class size ranges from 6 to 12 students.
* Parents and caregivers contributing to the enrichment of their child’s music environment-regardless of their own musical abilities
* A new song collection every semester for three years, featuring great arrangements of original and traditional songs in a wide variety of tonalities, meters and cultural styles.