Move to the Music (Music For Fun)
Music is an extension of our expressive selves with our bodies as instruments. We will involve children 6-11 years in all kinds of rhythmic & tonal activities involving music, movement, and language. If you like to walk and talk, play and laugh by yourself and in an ensemble with others, this summer camp is for you! Participants will find themselves singing and moving to literature through chants, songs, and poems, in addition to performing creative drama. Parents/Guardians are invited to join in our sessions with the only requirement that if they stay, they play (participate).
Instructor: Frances Vitali, PhD
B.S. & M.Music in Music Education
Session | 7/15-19
Henderson Fine Arts Ctr. Room 9212
(upper level)
Course ID: CKDRM 057 A1
Language of Music
Music is universal. Every culture expresses themselves through a distinct language oral and most times written. Every culture expresses themselves musically with distinct instruments, tonally and rhythmically. We learn music the same way we learn language. Children listen to their mother's voice and learn language from their interacting with family through listening and speaking. Children begin with their own babble stage, imitating the language heard. They begin to move from their babble communication to understanding the syntax of language by speaking in sentences with correct noun verb order. Children learn listening and speaking vocabularies and eventually further their reading and writing vocabularies in school. Children learn in a socialized setting learning not only language but the nuances of language inferred and emotional contexts.
The same parallel happens in music where children listen to music, learning rhythmic and tonal vocabularies. They begin with a music babble stage too and develop their music understanding as they interact with different rhythms and tonalities, whereby increasing their music vocabulary. All along, movement, small and gross movement involving all body parts, is crucial in this development. Music theorists all agree on this.
Music is a symbolic system, like the alphabet.