The Music of Music Together^®

Pitter Patter Music Together is proud to teach the Music Together^®® curriculum, which includes an award-winning mix of original songs and traditional tunes from a range of musical styles, including folk, blues, jazz, and world music. The music is pitched just right for children's voices, and the arrangements are fun, sophisticated, and loved by children - and grownups! The combination gives the children a rich music experience, and makes this kids' music enjoyable for the adult listening, too!

With twelve song collections rotated over three years, you and your child can build a large, varied repertoire of songs in different tonalities and meters, and from different cultural origins.

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Our Singers

To emphasise the importance of family music-making, Music Together^® has introduced the singers on the recordings as a family: "Mummy," "Daddy", "Uncle Gerry," and "Grandma Yvette" sing along with the children on all of the song collections. Click here to meet the adult singers on the recordings, and click here to learn about the kids!

Three Years of Different Music

Our curriculum is non-sequential, so a family can begin classes at any time. All collections contain

• #helloeverybody - our famous 'Hello Song' Enrolled families take home a beautifully illustrated songbook, a CD, and a unique download code to access the music (plus bonus activities) digitally each session. 
• a 'Get Your Instrument and Play Along' instrument jam 
• at least 2 lullabies you can learn to sing as part of your nap & bedtime routine
• songs for large and small movement
• the Music Together 'Goodbye' song
• PLUS about 20 other songs in a wide variety of tonalities and rhythms!

The curriculum is fun, but make no mistake - it is here to help you and your family learn the language of MUSIC.

Collect all 12 volumes over 3 full years. Then, cycle back to re-experience the collections from their growing children's ever-changing perspectives. Children reap developmental benefits that build over time, and music learning is cumulative. We encourage participation for as many years as possible from infancy through age 5.

Illustrated Songbook

When you share a Music Together songbook with your child, pointing to pictures and singing the songs, you can create a musical, emotionally-connecting, visually-stimulating, experience filled with love and positivity!

Here, an adult hand holds the Music Together songbook, while that beloved grown-up sings to the baby... look at the baby's hands move with excitement!

Our family songbook series brings each song to life through colourful, engaging illustrations by award-winning artist Jaime Kim and children's book illustrator Gerald Kelley. 

You'll find the songbook helpful to learn the lyrics, as a jumping-off point for creative storytelling, and to learn more about the songs you're singing in class. Your child may enjoy snuggling with you and singing through the whole book at once - or opening to a page to tell you what song they want to sing!

Variety

Music Together recordings have outstanding arrangements that are fun, sophisticated, and loved by children and grownups alike. Included are traditional folk songs, chants, music from many other cultures and original songs and arrangements by the program coauthors make these collections especially unique. Outstanding instrumentalists play a variety of instruments, such as guitar, bass, flute, violin, keyboards, and percussion. Along with the songs, there are rhythmic chants (excellent for language development), tonal and rhythm patterns (excellent for learning the building blocks of music), and instrumental jam-alongs, all in a rich variety of tonalities and meters. All of the songs are suitable for mixed-age groups; perfect for families with children of different ages.

Backed by Research

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.

Song Selection Process

Music Together songs are also very thoughtfully chosen. Music Together is first and foremost a music education program, and this drives all of our decisions in song selection. Songs are chosen for the Music Together curriculum based primarily on two factors: (1) the song's educational value for the young child's musical growth, and (2) the song's effectiveness for family music-making. We are also committed to producing ethical and respectful representations of songs. Read here about our Song Advisory Board, and the work that is done to ensure the highest quality of music for your child.

The music that we teach young children matters 

Children develop deep, sometimes lifelong attachments to the songs they learn early in their lives. Thus, the responsibility of including or omitting songs in our curriculum is something that Music Together takes seriously. 

Testimonials

"This is a truly fabulous CD for children and families, every song on it a joy to sing-, move-, or dance-along to....The presence of both adult and (lovely) children's voices invites active participation by all ages."

- Tilliwig Awards reviewer

"One of the greatest gifts of Music Together has been learning so many new (to me) traditional children's or folk songs from other countries and cultures, especially the lullabies. I've absolutely loved expanding my repertoire of songs to sing to/with my children and the fact that they are absorbing and learning these same songs."

- Kerri

"The CD's are the soundtrack to our lives and have made many long car journeys bearable"

- Laura

"My husband says the CD is like MAGIC. If our 18mo daughter is about to lose it - we just put the CD on and she's transfixed. It's like it transports her back to class. She's doing all the movements. Guaranteed. We love it!"

-Beth