"Almost all of Bridgeport early learners who participated in Total Learning's Music Together parent-child classes ranked above national norms in key developmental domains after exposure to the program"                                                                                                                 Bridgeport, CT, Study Results

80 percentile on interpersonal and coping skills 

60 percentile on expressive and receptive language skills 

68 percentile on interpersonal and coping skills

90 percentile on expressive and receptive language skills

Honoring Mr Joel

Music Matters!

 

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"I am a professional flutist who has taken all 3 of my kids to Ms. Gila and Music Together including my now 2 year old who is going on Sundays with my 4 1/2 year old. My kids sing all the songs throughout the house and my 2 year old will make up words or hum the tunes in her crib when she thinks no one is listening. My 4 1/2 year old son can match any pitch and does not even know how cool that is. I give Ms. Gila all the credit.                                                                                                                                        Carolyn C.....Plano

 Music Together is:

• a research-based early childhood music and movement program for families

• Infants/Toddlers/Preschoolers, ages 0 to 6 

• Parent-child classes with parent education

• Encouragement of parent role modeling

• Music learned through playful activities in mixed-aged classes

• Fun! Fun! Fun!

Basic Principles of the Music Together Philosophy

I. All children are musical.

II. Therefore, all children can achieve basic music competence, which we have defined as the ability to sing in tune and move with accurate rhythm.

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.

Music Together offers a rich, developmentally appropriate environment for music learning

o High-quality products (CDs, songbooks)

o Fun, playful, interactive experience

o Well-trained teachers to lead and guide

o Immersion in live singing, movement, and instrument play

o Education about musical behavior and children’s music development

o Safe learning space for self-expression: inclusion of all participants’ ideas and responses

o Exposure to different kinds of music, different tonalities, meters, rhythms

o Multi-sensory learning

o Inclusive of all developmental stages and learning styles

o Modeling playfulness and playful interaction with children

o Exposure to the language of music

o Ideas on how to incorporate music into daily life

Schedule a Demo class:

We are sure our classes will sell themselves.  Join any demo class or ongoing class to witness in person how much fun infants, toddlers, presschooler and grownups can have together.  Select the Demo Scheduler from the menu choices on the left.

Watch Ken Guilmartin, co founder of Music Together, on PBS

I don't even know where to begin to thank you for everything you have taught me in the last 18 months. I always knew music would be a big part of our child's life but I did not know how to participate in her music education until I began going to Music Together. The joy that you have brought to my family cannot be measured.                                                                                      Julie H...............Dallas