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Kindermusik Musicians

Children 5.5 to 8 years

Your Kindergartener or 1st grader is ready
to do some serious playing
– with music, that is. 

KINDERMUSIK MUSICIANS
trains your child’s ear to listen,
starting with the world around him.

Movement becomes the catalyst for learning music
in a whole body,
multi-sensory classroom experience.

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What happens in class?

Using games and dances, we explore musical concepts like sound/no sound, beat/no beat, forte/piano, tempo, and pitch. Students learn to read notes by becoming the notes on the staff. They explore melody by writing their own music. They learn to play a glockenspiel, dulcimer, and recorder. At the end of their 2 year study, they can make an informed decision about which instrument they would like pursue in private study.

  • Singing and vocal development — It may sound like a foreign language when a child sings “ta” and “ti-ti,” but this is the language of professional musicians and composers and getting young children ready to read and write simple rhythm patterns.
  • Movement — See children dance expressively to music, giving them the practice they needs to coordinate their body movements to the sound of music. This kind of musical play not only improves musicianship, but physical coordination as well.
  • Reading and writing — Young children will learn melodic notation and identify pitches such as the C, A, and D notes on the treble clef, plus rhythmic notation. Eventually even composing their own music.
  • Focused listening — Children will learn to identify a range of orchestra instruments and their sound qualities, while also gaining an early awareness and knowledge of composers and masterworks in Western arts tradition.
  • Exploring and playing musical instruments — Authentic percussion, string, pre-keyboard, and woodwind instruments expose children to the many choices for future musical study, and at the same time provide them with the opportunity to musically succeed before taking on more formal instruction.
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Enrollment includes:
  • Developmentally appropriate curriculum for children ages 5.5 to 8 years; caregivers attend the last 10-15 minutes
  • Small class size – between 2 and 8 children
  • 15-week semester
  • Weekly 60-minute class
Plus, for each semester you enroll in, we'll give you a set of At Home Materials absolutely FREE.

You’ll receive:

  • a bookbag
  • CD download of music from class
  • Glockenspiel with mallets
  • Family Songbook
  • Games pieces pack
  • Fiddlesticks
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There are 4 semesters of Kindermusik Musicians, creating a comprehensive 2 year musical program.

Each semester is 15 classes long.

  • Semester 1

    Everything your child learns later in semesters 2, 3, and 4 begins with this early introduction to singing, reading, and writing music and rhythm. Through dances and games that focus on rhythmic development, we’ll learn a keyboard instrument—the glockenspiel—which will be used throughout all the Young Child classes. Your At Home Materials provide the music, instruments, stickers, and activities for a home version of the same playful activities you’ll hear about from class, so your child—and you!—can learn where you’re most comfortable: at home.

  • Semester 2

    Playing simple musical patterns and songs on the featured instrument from the first session—the glockenspiel—is a central focus this semester. While learning to sing a melody, and then play the pattern on the glockenspiel, we’ll delve deeper into the understanding of musical concepts such as piano and forte through orchestra-style music such as the William Tell Overture and Peter and the Wolf. Music appreciation and understanding continues with a complete introduction to the instruments—and the families in which they’re grouped—of the orchestra.

  • Semester 3

    Appalachian music is a featured musical style this semester. First, you and your child will build a two-stringed dulcimer instrument with materials that we’ll provide. Then in class we’ll learn to play chords and simple melodies on the instrument you built together. We’ll also explore rhythm concepts through dance with an introduction to the basic steps in jazz, ballet, and tap dances. Your Home Materials include dulcimer-making materials, activity cards, and music that features recordings from Appalachia, African-America, and Native American music, as well as the Western Art music of the Nutcracker Suite.

  • Semester 4

    In this final semester, we’ll introduce the recorder instrument. As your child is introduced to basic methods of playing simple melodic patterns and songs on this wind instrument, we’ll also incorporate the instruments, concepts, and songs from previous semesters. With a special emphasis on multicultural music, your child will learn to improvise and write music, as well as experience the musical styles of the Pacific Islands, Europe, and Africa; plus play special dances and children’s games from around the world, including Alpine dances, Mexico, and Ecuador.