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What is Music Together®?
Music Together is a 22 year old, research-based program designed to enhance children's acquisition of basic musical competence, based on the belief that all children are musical. Additionally, children's ability to move, communicate, and socialize may be enhanced, and the family gains another common "language" for day-to-day interaction. The Music Together headquarters are based in Hopewell, New Jersey in a beautiful 'green' building. Music Together currently serves over 2,200 communities worldwide. The co-authors of the program, Ken Guilmartin and Lili Levinowitz, continue to teach children and train teachers applying the latest research in early child hood music development to the curriculum. Registered teachers and center directors must all successfully complete a rigorous Music Together teacher training program in early childhood music development. All teachers working for FAM JAM! must also attend several classes and apprentice with Devi Borton, center director of FAM JAM, for at least one semester.

In typical Music Together classes, 6-12 children ages birth to kindergarten age and their parents or caregivers meet for 45 minutes each week to actively experience and create musically diverse songs, chants, improvisational and guided movement activities, and instrumental jam sessions. As the parent-child relationship is a vital component of the program, both adult and children are invited but never pressured to participate. Children often learn by observing others, especially older children, as well as their parents. Classes are led by outstanding registered Music Together teachers who bring both a musical background and knowledge of child development to their classes, providing parent education. Most of all, Music Together is about having fun, learning through play, about discovering the "joy of family music®"!

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