Formal music instruction cannot teach a child to "be musical" or to find joy or inspiration in music. Really, it's fun, exploration-filled discoveries that lead to the foundational types of learning in early childhood. A musical disposition, or the intrinsic motivation to be musical all one's life, is the result of positive, happy, and fulfilling experiences and associations with music in early childhood.

You are, by far, your child's most important role model in this regard. Music Together is committed to supporting and facilitating your efforts to create and sustain a rich musical environment in your home, thus encouraging your child's natural process of musical growth and ensuring the realization of your child's inborn musical potential.

Understanding childhood musical development will deepen your appreciation of how your child responds to musical experiences, and it will make musical interaction with your child more interesting and meaningful. Most importantly, it will compel you to provide for your child a wealth of musical experiences, to cultivate and share your own love of music, and to nurture your child's emerging musical self.