Class Descriptions

Help your child discover the love of music! This summer our classes will take place Thursdays in the East Hampton Music Studio.  Check the Schedule to times.
Playing outdoors is such fun for children, and so very important, especially in our day. There are many sounds to hear, wonderful places to play and work, and room to move, move, move! Go outside with your child!
 Activities Include:

• Sing about ducks and birds
• March around to The Grand Old Duke of York
• Go fishing
• Listen to the Robin or Owl sing
• Make music with your friends and family

 Family Activities and Materials:

• Musikgarten recordings that will keep your attention. You’ll hear fast-tempo music as well as calming, slower relaxing music. The recordings come in two formats: CD and downloadable recordings.
• 24 page children’s picture/activity book

 

 

 You can join any of the suummer programs as a drop in.  Tuition is $35 per class.   Purchase of Home Material for program is highly recommend.  
Playing outdoors Home material- $30
Cycles of Seasons Summer  Home Material- $40
Instruments in a bag Home Material - $30

All available for purchase at class.

WHY... should you join a babies Music class?  

• All babies are born with music aptitude.
• Babies absorb the sounds of music in the same way they absorb the sounds of their spoken language.
• Recent studies have shown that music affects the physical, emotional, and intellectual development of babies and strengthens cognitive and sensory development.
• Patterns heard in class feed the ear-brain connection and start to form the language of music. Before long they will be imitating those patterns, developing for life their sense of pitch and rhythm.

Who joins music classes for Babies?.Who is this for? How old does the baby have to be? This class is for any baby, at any age, up to about 16 or 18 months. Some moms have signed up for the class before the baby is born, then come back later with baby in tow!


What happens in a babies class? Lots of singing, dancing, rocking, steady beat, instruments, scarves, rhymes, finger plays, lullabies, and games. All designed to introduce little ones to the language of music, while at the same time equipping parents with songs and rhymes for every occasion! This class developmentally addresses your babies needs, and provides bonding moments for caregivers.

What is the Home Material?  You will receive recorded music from the program in CD and Downloadable format, a parent handbook with all the lyrics to all the songs we sing in class (and lovely explanations of the movement we include at every class) and a cloth instrument bag that holds a set of sticks, a wooden rattle and a soft scarf for your babies exclusive use.  No need to share germs!   
Note: The home material for this coming Winter/Spring Session is Family Music for Babies I  all new activities and recordings.

The Home Material is filled with a wealth of new music to share with your baby and your growing family. 

So plan to join us for music class devoted to your baby all year long!


 

Get Ready to sing, shimmy, and shake!  We will be singing, dancing,  listening and playing simple instruments, while creating an environment in which the child's music aptitude is nurtured and skills are develope. This is a fun music class for the whole family.

 

Cost of program includes classes and Home material:

• music in a CD or digital Download format, and a colorful children's Sing a long Book
• Instrument Kit for classroom use

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Overheard in class from a participating 3 year old, "I LOVE this class."

Your child will giggle as they sing, move imaginatively and play instruments in this weekly music program.  The songs chosen for this class are simple to sing and delight the children as they expand their vocabulary.  Their imaginations are busy as they are called on to think how the tadpole feels swimming through the water after breaking free from his egg.  They “become” the tadpole as he gracefully moves around the pond.  The children then enact the transformation and they joyfully croak and hop their way across the room.  Finally, they settle down into the listening corner to listen to the recorded sounds of green frogs and bull frogs, focusing and refining their listening skills.  Instruments are brought out and explored during each class.
 In addition to singing, playing instruments, purposeful movement activities, and focused listening, the children are learning the language of music.  In each class the children echo a series of tonal and rhythm patterns.  These patterns are found in the singing repertoire, and they will be the first patterns the children will learn to read in music notation in the coming years.
 
The Cycle of Seasons is the right choice for both your child and you!

Home materials include a CD, a downloadable source for all the recording music, a songbook, and animal cards in a cloth bag)






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This music and movement program gives your child a solid music making foundation in a fun music filled environment. We focus on your child's fascination with nature and love of instruments. The program provides a developmentally sound approach to music literacy that builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory and self-expression, introduces orchestral instruments and ensemble play and focuses on building a child's aural (listening) foundation which leads to long-term success with voice, enhancement of self-discipline and social skills, first steps in reading music.
Material for Session 1: My Home Place and Woodlands 

The first session home material includes:
1. Red Tote bag

2. Music Makers Album

3. Material for My Home Place and Woodlands (see images below)

   

The Units, My Home and Woodlands each contain:

1. a Poster  folder (10" x 15") and game pieces
2. a CD and a code for downloadable recordings
3. a Parent Booklet

This year focuses on your child's fascination with all things new and different. Over the course of the year we will explore the music of the British Isles,  Amerindians, Germany and African American Heritage. The program features songs, dances, stories, rituals and customs of these cultures to help your child feel and understand others. It builds skills in listening, singing, playing instruments, as well as expressive movement and dance. Every class offers age-appropriate steps to develop music literacy - symbolic thinking, concentration, memory and self-expression. Your child will have a solid, comprehensive music foundation, an excellent preparation for the next step, whether it be instrumental lessons, singing in a choir, participating in an Orff ensemble, or joining a dance class. This class is also a pre-piano class and all participants are guaranteed a spot in the Music Makers: At the Keyboard Program or pre-keyboard program.

Cost of program includes  15 classes and the home material needed for each session.  The cost is more if the child is newly entering the program and needs an album and a Musikgarten Red Tote Bag (Bag only needed if classes are at the studio).

Home material for the first semester includes (items marked with * are for new students only):

1. British Isles Poster  (10" x 15") and game pieces
2. British Isles CD and downloadable recorded music

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1. Amerindian Poster (10" x 15") and game pieces
2. Amerindian CD
3. 
4. parent Booklet for both British Isles and Amerindian
5. *Red Musikgarten Tote Bag
6. * Music Makers Notebook (to store all home materials)

Home material for the Second Semester includes:

1. Germany (10" x 15") and game pieces
2. Germany CD
3. African-American Heritage Poster (10" x 15") and game pieces
4. African-American Heritage CD
5. parent booklet for both Germany and African-American Heritage

 
Music Makers: At the Keyboard is a comprehensive approach to learning music.  Learning music comprehensively is much more than being able to name notes or being able to differentiate between quarter and half notes.  Comprehensive musicianship leads a child to music literacy, or the ability to hear in one’s head music that is written on the page.  Conversely, the musically literate person will be able to figure how to play the melody, harmony, and rhythm of a piece s/he hears, without needing to see the written music.
 
Music Makers: At the Keyboard is a group method.  By studying the piano in a group setting, singing games and movement activities are naturally a part of the experience.  These are the very things that nurture the musician inside each child, making success at the keyboard possible.  The group also allows children to learn from each other and overcome performance anxiety.  Most importantly, the group setting keeps the fun in music-making.
 
Music Makers: At the Keyboard is an aural approach.  Years of experience have shown us that children learn to read and understand musical notation only after they have a strong aural foundation in place.  In Music Makers: At the Keyboard, keyboard skills are layered on at the appropriate time and at an appropriate pace, thereby allowing the aural foundation to be established and reinforced.  But that doesn’t mean that the children won’t be playing very much.  The fact is that in the first year, they will be taught to play more than 25 songs in the keys of C, D, E, F, and G Major and c, d, e, f, and g minor.  Additionally, the children will be playing I, IV, and V7 chords in multiple keys with both hands!
 
Music Makers: At the Keyboard lays the groundwork for keyboard success!   Through the variety of activities in each class the children become independent musicians.  They have both a love of music and a love of a specific repertoire, both of which are major incentives for practicing.  In addition to playing the keyboards, the children will be involved in drumming and dancing to nurture their rhythmic development, singing to nurture their tonal development, and echoing patterns to nurture their aural development. And composing and musical dictation activities lead the child to music literacy.
 
Children who complete Music Makers: At the Keyboard not only possess a strong desire to make music, they have the aural and keyboard skills that will enable them to do so.  It prepares children for future piano study, as well as whatever musical adventures the future holds!

Material for Book 1 Classes:


Book 1 Student book
2 CDS (a listening CD and a special Practice CD)
A notebook to hold their weekly assignments
A parent booklet that provides information to make this program more successful at home.
(new students entering the program at this level will also need a red Musikgarten Bag to help them bring their books each week)
A Musikgarten Tote Bag (included only if student is new to the Music Makers program)

We all enjoyed your program so much! What is truly amazing, is the fact that they all walked into the class and didn't know one thing about music. And look at them now. You did an amazing job!
- comment from a happy a parent finishing book 4 of the Music Makers at the Keyboard Program

We continue our aural approach at the piano, presenting all new Challenges in Book 3.  The children will contineu to play songs by ear, but now they will be asked to figure out the patterns for themselves.  More work with scales will allow them to move all around the keyboard with ease.  They will be introduced to the wonderful music of Beethoven, Glinka, Saint-Saens, and Chopin, and they will be reading several familiar and new pieces.

Book 3 brings the children many new notation games and also opportunities to take dictation of familiar songs.  They will continue to improvise and compose, adding dynamics, articulation, and expression markings so that their results are more musical than ever!

 Material for Book 3 Classes:
Book 3 Student book
2  fresh CDS (a listening CD and a special Practice CD) and  codes for the downloadable recorded music