Music Play | Winter
Music | Available
Enrich your child's development by immersing them in music! Music Play is a joyful, early-childhood music experience based on Edwin Gordon’s Music Learning Theory. The class will emphasize audiation ("thinking in music"), movement, and playful exploration as the foundation for musical understanding. In each class, children and their caregivers engage in singing, chanting, and movement designed to develop rhythm and tonal vocabularies. Songs will span many tonalities and meters, to give children a rich acculturation to different musical contexts. Movement activities draw from Rudolf Laban’s elements of time, space, weight, and flow, helping children experience music physically and expressively. This class will be full of discovery and creativity, inviting each child to learn music as naturally as they learn language.
Grace Cox
Grace Cox began formal instruction on piano and violin at age five (and informal instruction before birth!) and has been teaching private lessons for the past fifteen years. Drawing from her continuing education in Gordon’s Music Learning Theory, she is passionate about creating environments where music learning feels natural, growth-oriented, and joyful. In her early-childhood Music Play classes, Grace invites children and their caregivers into a playful, movement-rich space to explore the musical vocabularies of rhythm and tonal patterns. As a mother of five, she treasures the everyday musicality of childhood and delights in watching young learners discover how to communicate through sound, rhythm, and song.