Creative Music for Children
Welcome to Barbara Langhorne's Music Makers, Introducing your child to the Exciting World of Music!
Barbara Langhorne's Music Makers is a carefully graduated continuous development of musical skills, in a social atmosphere. Children are in groups with their own age level, but each child's responses and potential are carefully cultivated.
Our aim is to introduce music as an enjoyable integral part of your child's life. A child's response to music begins at birth, and should be cultivated in the early years when learning habits are established.
Appreciation of music or any art form increases with understanding and knowledge, but technicalities become fun when absorbed through games, songs, picture, and puppets.
Ask the younger "Music Makers" - "What did you learn today?" - and invariably the answer is "We don't learn things - we just make music and have fun!" That's the way we like them to feel - because music is fun!
Music is a jig-saw puzzle in sound. Its parts include beat, rhythm, tempo, pitch, melody, harmony, and dynamics. As the children use these separate parts, they become more familiar with them, and when the parts are put together in a song, the song as a whole is better understood and appreciated in the true sense of the word.
Given the building blocks of musical knowledge, the child experiences the thrill of expressing him- or herself, intelligibly through music - the international language.
And it's not enough to teach only the academic side of music. In Barbara Langhorne's Music Makers, we endeavour to stimulate observation, curiosity, and inventiveness; to develop attention span, memory, sensitivity and discrimination, and to improve psycho-motor co-ordination. It has been proven that early musical training has far reaching effects on a child's academic ability, emotional stability and social development.
Visit our about the program page to read more about the Music makers Program.
Application Download
*Please note: There are two versions of our application forms available for download, an Adobe "pdf" and a Microsoft "Word" version. You will either need Adobe reader ( available free ) or Microsoft Word 2003-2007 to open these documents.
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You can submit your application form by mail, fax or email. See contact info.