Early Music Education, Early Childhood Music, School of Music, preschool music, music lessons, music education, children, toddlers

The Music School in your region offers courses
in Early Music Education for children
between age 4 and 6.

In small Groups (<6) individual abilities
are promoted and developed.
Immersing into the fascinating world of
music stands in the center of these courses.

Singing, chants and rhymes, listening games, more complex rhythm and tonal patterns, and movement games. These activities nurture the child's musical development while satisfying the child's need to learn in a holistic environment.

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The child's musical development is culivated through songs, more complex tonal and rhythm patterns, poetry and stories, movement activities, listening games, and instrumental ensembles. Basic music skills such as pitch matching, beat competency, ensemble development, and music notation are introduced using themes from the child's home environment and natural surroundings. The researcher urge of the children at this age is enormous. They are now also able to regard things more exactly, to test it and understand thus. A solid foundation is laid for all further musical activities and learning in general.

Course contents are:

Active games
Singing and dancing
Theme related hearing and activities
Coordinated play of Orff-Instruments (Solo/Ensemble)
Read- und write exercises to learn notes
Rythmic and melodic echo plays (hearing, singing, writing, reading)
Instrument studies
Selective instrument play

Source: Professor Dr. Hans Günther Bastian: Musikerziehung und ihre Wirkung. Eine Langzeitstudie an Berliner Grundschulen, Mainz: Schott Musik International 2000, unter Mitarbeit von Adam Kormann, Roland Hafen, Martin Koch; eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Ergebnisse ist als Taschenbuch erschienen: Hans Günther Bastian: Kinder optimal fördern - mit Musik, Atlantis - Schott, Mainz 2001