Dr. Lili Levinowitz, Music Together® coauthor, will be inducted into the Early Childhood Music & Movement Association (ECMMA) Hall of Honor at the organization’s biennial conference in June 2024, as announced by ECMMA on March 13, 2024. The nonprofit Early Childhood Music & Movement Association (ECMMA) was formed in 1986 as the first organization focused on the advancement of early childhood music and movement in research and teacher development. The organization believes appropriate, purposeful music and movement experiences enhance early childhood development and seeks to support ea ..read more

We’ve just launched a brand-new Music Together app that replaces our Hello Everybody app. This new music player has an updated, intuitive interface that makes it super-easy for you to play your Music Together tunes whenever and wherever you’d like. Download it from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store today! Music Together families, log in with your Music Together account (or create one on the app with the code in your songbook) to get your songs into the app. Then, have fun singing and dancing along. (And If you already have the Hello Everybody app, it will update to the Music T ..read more

The simple and enjoyable act of making music with your child naturally fosters important social and emotional skills, such as self-regulation, self-confidence, leadership skills, social skills, and socio-emotional intelligence. Making music with your child can be so much fun for both of you, whether you’re singing along to the radio in the car, jamming on plastic bowl “drums,” or dancing to songs on your iPod.  Plus, music-making helps your child’s development in many important ways. The best part? You don’t have to have a great singing voice or play a musical instrument to have an impac ..read more

We’ve heard this from lots of parents over the years: You’re singing along to your favorite song, when suddenly your toddler says, “Don’t sing, Mama!” or “Stop singing, Daddy!” This can be disconcerting! We want our children to speak their mind and express their desires, but what do we do when their desires conflict with our desire to sing? You might also wonder if your child no longer likes the sound of your singing voice and whether you should stop singing with them. It helps to understand what’s at work in the emerging personhood of toddlers in order to decide what to do. (It’s NOT about y ..read more

Babies can be puzzling. They are little, they are squishy, and they seem to need help doing everything. And yet we know that huge development is happening on the inside, as their brains grow at an astronomical rate every second of the day. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “What’s going on in there?” you’re not alone. We can help with some insight into what babies’ brains are up to when you make music with them. Music Processing in Babies’ Brains When you sing, bounce, dance, and play with music, in class or at home, at least eight areas of baby’s brain are activated at the same time. Here ..read more

When their son Daniel was a baby, Yolanda Fernandez and Arturo Silva, of Princeton, NJ, came across Music Together while looking for educational activities to do as a family—and they have been singing, dancing, and jamming in class for more than twelve semesters! Daniel’s now four-and-a-half, and to celebrate completing his first song collection cycle, he gathered all his songbooks and recreated the illustration in the back of the book. (How adorable is he?!) Yolanda says, “The first class each semester, he is always so excited to get a new songbook; he can’t get enough of them. He knows whic ..read more

It’s been a year of drive-through birthday parties, Zoom meetings in the same room as your three-year-old’s virtual preschool class, and feeding everyone in the house what sure feels like infinite meals and snacks. Every. Single. Day. Now that the next stage of pandemic parenting is upon us, you might be wondering what you can do to support your young child’s learning. Our answer? Sing with them! (Seriously. That’s it.) Like everything we do here at Music Together®, our suggestion is rooted in research. Let’s take a look behind the scenes and explore how making music supports brain ..read more

In January 2021, Music Together Worldwide CEO Susan Darrow was invited to be a part of the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association (ECMMA), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee (DEI). ECMMA is a national nonprofit organization that brings together early childhood music and movement educators, teacher trainers, and researchers from many different teaching philosophies, methods, and cultural backgrounds. At their 2021 convention earlier this summer, Susan led a panel discussion about making the early childhood music classroom a more diverse and inclusive space for all families. &nb ..read more

Each week, 950 preschoolers, their teachers, and sometimes their parents, gather for music classes taught by Music Together in-school specialists. As you’d imagine, there’s singing, dancing, silly lyrics, and lots of laughter. What you might not expect? These classes are 100% virtual, with families joining from their Richmond, VA, homes—and their Music Together teachers logging on from around the US. Thanks to a partnership with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the Music Together In School curriculum has been a part of Richmond Public Schools (RPS) since 2018, with a local Music Together spec ..read more

Parents are sometimes surprised to hear that they can start Music Together® classes with their babies as soon after birth as they’d like. That’s because all children are born music-makers. Yes, your baby’s cries, coos, and squeals are also their first attempts at singing! How do babies go from “aahh!” to “do, re, mi”? Like all early learning, it starts with parent and caregiver support. Think about how children learn language. Babies are not born with the ability to speak their language; rather, they are born with the potential to learn to speak their language. It’s only t ..read more