What is Music Together^®?

First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement. Now serving 2,500 communities in over 40 countries, Music Together® connects families and communities across the globe as they express and explore the basic human instinct for making music.

From babyhood through the early elementary years, Music Together^® nurtures each child’s natural musicality in a playful, musically rich learning environment. Our research-based music classes are designed to be non-formal and non-performance oriented, so your child can learn at his or her own pace, in a way that’s developmentally appropriate.

By enrolling in our children’s music program, you’ll experience a whole semester of classes led by one of our trained teachers. No matter what music class you take at Waterfront Music Together, you’re guaranteed to learn new songs and music activities to inspire you to bring music into your family’s everyday life.

We Teach the Way Children Learn

At Music Together, we know that children learn differently than adults. They learn instinctively and constantly, and teach themselves through imitation and play, through being immersed in their environment, and through interaction with adults and older children. The family-like setting of Music Together classes creates an ideal learning environment. And it’s all based on research in early childhood and music development.

Learn about the research behind Music Together at the Music Together Worldwide website.

Your Role Is Essential

You are your child’s most important music teacher! Young children learn through play and experimentation and by watching and listening to the grownups they love. Setting an example as an enthusiastic participator in music activities is the best thing any parent or caregiver can do to help set a child on the road to a lifelong love of music. Parents don't need to have music skills—they just need a desire to play and have fun with their children! Our teachers are specially trained to create a safe atmosphere so you can happily join in, experiment, or even get silly—and feel closer to your child while doing so.

Music Together® Family Favorites^®®

Music Together’s song collections are research-based and artistically conceived and produced. They are also classroom- and family-tested. Since 1987, the feedback of hundreds of teachers and thousands of families has been incorporated into these constantly evolving materials.

Award-winning CD Collections:

• A Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award
• Early Childhood News Directors’ Choice
• Early Childhood News Judges’ Selection
• National Parenting Center Seal of Approval
• NAPPA Gold Award
• iParenting Media Award
• Learning®Magazine 2008 Teacher’s Choice
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• Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice
• Children’s Music Web Award
• Mom’s Choice Gold Award
• Parent-Tested Parent-Approved Award

Music Learning Supports All Learning^®

Wiggling, singing, and laughing with your child is so much fun, it's easy to forget how much learning is taking place! Our research-based curriculum not only develops music skills, it nurtures creativity, self-expression, and confidence while also supporting social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Because these benefits build over time, children enjoy the fullest growth in each of these areas when they participate as consistently as possible up through kindergarten.

Music Together^® at Your Child’s School

We can also bring Music Together to your child’s school. Taught by Music Together specialists from Waterfront Music Center, in cooperation with classroom teachers, our curriculum can be easily integrated into any early learning setting, including pre-kindergarten programs, Head Start classrooms, childcare centers and in-home care. Learn more here.