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Music Makers: Around the World (4-7 yr) |
Music Makers: Around the World is a 45-minute class in which students use flashcards to begin learning about rests, common melodic patterns, rhythmic patterns in duple and triple meters, and dynamic markings. In the earlier Musikgarten age groups children learn elements of music like steady beat, rhythm, melody, and expression by “doing.” Music Makers is the first of the Musikgarten classes to begin actively discussing “how” music is read and written.
Music Makers is a wonderful preparation for future private music lessons, although students need not be planning to take music privately to enjoy the academic benefits of class. While we begin more advanced intellectual and musical activities, there is still lots of time for singing, dancing, reading stories and poetry, games, and instruments, including maracas, bongos, tambourines, the glockenspiel, metallophone, resonator bars, and keyboards. We likewise use posters and listening activities to begin identifying musical instruments from the woodwind, brass, string, and percussion families.
There are four units to class: 1) British Isles, 2) American-Indian, 3) Germany, and 4) African-American. Each unit offers a respectful study of the music, dances, customs, clothing, food, and people. We likewise study the popular/historic songs, composers, and instruments from each area. This curriculum includes beautifully choreographed social dances, as well as lots of ensemble development for the advanced musicianship used in piano lessons, orchestras, and bands.
To register for this class, please go to the "Registration and Order Forms" page. Trial classes available by appointment only.
Supplemental material for Music Makers: At Home in America may be purchased using the Order Form. Please complete the Order Form and send it, along with payment, to 601 Deltino Ct., Lexington, KY 40515. Upon receipt of your order, we will contact you to confirm.
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HOW WILL MUSIC MAKERS: AROUND THE WORLD BENEFIT MY CHILD?
Learn about the music, instruments, history, food, culture, and customs of a variety of countries and ethnicities, including the United States.
Children enjoy intricately choreographed social dances with scarves and hoops.
Early multi-cultural education promotes tolerance and respect for others.
Children learn vocabulary, songs, poems, and stories from other languages.
Class involves in-depth studies of many different composers and performers, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Strauss, Beethoven, Dvorak, Copland, Louis Armstrong, Scott Joplin, and others.
Students study national heroes and historical figures of America and other countries.
Students learn the geography and landmarks of each country, including the U.S.
Students listen to lesser-known instruments like the zither, Irish harp, pipe organ, Indian flute, harpsichord, Scottish bagpipes, and tubular bells.
Students learn to read and write music using flashcards and song pages.
Students begin to play in ensembles using the glockenspiel, resonator bars, metallophone, maracas, bongos, triangle, guiro, rattles, jingles, drums, rain stick, sand blocks, and rhythm sticks and occasionally keyboards.
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Here is Some More Information About Music Makers: Around the World:
- For students 4 – 7 years.​
- There are 3 semesters in a year, lasting 15-17 weeks each, covering a total of 4 units: 1) British Isles, including Scotland, England, Ireland, and Wales, 2) American Indians including the Plains, Northwest Pacific Coast, Southwest, and Northeast Woodland tribes, 3) Germany, and 4) African-American, including Jamaica and the Caribbean.
- Each unit offers listenings, pictures, cultural items, and maps to study the geography, landmarks, and history of the culture.
- The music, dance, food, instruments, history, culture, and customs of a variety of countries and ethnicities are studied.
- Each class offers the opportunity to play/sing solos and work on ensemble development with the group.
- Two-part, three-part, and four-part ensembles are played using the glockenspiel, resonator bars, metallophone, maracas, bongos, triangle, guiro, rattles, jingles, tambourines, drums, rain stick, sandblocks, rhythm sticks, Chinese bells, and keyboards.
- Students use flashcards to begin learning about rests, common melodic patterns, rhythmic patterns in duple and triple meters, and dynamic markings, etc.
- Song pages and flashcards are used to begin reading and writing music.
- Students use posters and listening examples to learn about various musical instrument groups, including strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion.
- Students also listen to less common instruments like the zither, Irish harp, pipe organ, Indian flute, Indian ankle bells, harpsichord, Scottish bagpipes, and tubular bells.
- Children enjoy intricately choreographed social dances with scarves and hoops.
- Children learn vocabulary, songs, poems, and stories from other languages.
- Students study the mythology, heroes, and historical figures from each cultural unit.
- Class includes in-depth studies of many different composers and performers, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Strauss, Beethoven, Dvorak, Copland, Louis Armstrong, Scott Joplin, Fats Domino, Marian Anderson, and Duke Ellington.
- Famous African-American dancers like Eubie Blake, Bojangles Robinson, Katherine Dunham, and the Nicholas Brothers are studied.
- Musical examples of jazz, ragtime, steel band, calypso, samba, spirituals, and Caribbean/Creole/Jamaican music, Welsh choirs, Irish jigs, Scottish bagpipe music, English children dances, and German polkas are listened to and danced in class.
- This curriculum is a wonderful preparation for Music Makers: At the Keyboard I (6 – 9 yrs.).
- This course alternates years with Music Makers: At Home in America (4 – 7 yrs.).​
Helpful Suggestions to Parents:
- Please keep food, drinks, toys, and other distractions in the car or hidden from view.
- If you have food or drinks with you, please eat them in the Party Room so our Waiting Room and classrooms remain clean
- If anyone in your household is in quarantine, no one from your household is permitted to enter our facility
- No one with a temperature of 100* or higher may enter our locations at any time
- Try to make bathroom stops before class begins.
- You can reinforce the information learned in class by practicing the Family Packet material at home and discussing and/or listening to multicultural music.
Tuition:
- There is a $15 Registration Fee per child which lasts for the Fall-Fall school year.
- Tuition: $14 per class to be paid by the semester
- There are discounts for families with more than one child enrolled in group classes or if the same student does multiple classes per week
- Student visitors (friends and/or relatives) are welcome to attend classes at any time; they can pay just for the class that they attend.
- Tuition fees are nonrefundable except in the cases of extreme illness or out-of-state moves. Registration and materials fees are non-refundable.
Makeup Classes:
- You are welcome to do a makeup class in one of the other Music Makers: Around the World sections, but please call the teacher of the makeup class first in case there have been any schedule changes.
- Makeup classes should be done during the same semester as the missed class.
Family Packets and Instruments:
- There is a Music Makers Family Packet available for each unit of class.
- Buying the Musikgarten Family Packets is optional; however, we have found that children who are exposed to the songs/activities more often tend to learn more and participate better in class.
- Family Packets are a wonderful resource for parents who are looking for educational and fun things to do with their children.
- Children love to listen to the activities/songs in bed, in the car, and during playtime.
- Musikgarten also sells drums, rattles, jingles, rhythm sticks, glockenspiels, sandblocks, finger cymbals, Chinese bells, scarves, and T-shirts that parents can purchase at any time.
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