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You're invited to sign up for classes through our website.  First consult the schedule to find the musical play classes designed for your child's age group.  The schedule will also list the price for each series of classes.  Then email us with the starting date and time of the class.  We will quickly confirm your registration for the class.  Payment can be done by credit card over the phone. 

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You are welcome to read about our system of musical play developed by Robert Markowitz.

This is Part Four - Chase Games

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Introduction
Part One - Beat             Part Two -Tension & Release Part Three - Dalcroze           Part Five - Grounding

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12 facet music program

 Robert talks about his music program.

Part Four - Story

Using the methods of Dalcroze, we build a vehicle for

 expression, and children add their own expression.  For

 children under two, we weave in some humor, interaction,

 tonality, and rhythm, and that is the basis for musical play.

For children two and over, we add story. 

GO TO SLEEP (MOVING TO THE BEAT CD) is basically a jumping

 song. I start the children lying on the carpet. “Go to sleep.

 Put on your pajamas. Get under the covers. Good night.”

 Then comes the jumping. Driving beat. “I’m gonna jump with

 my toes, jump with my feet, jump with my nose, etc."


I soon realized that the appeal of this song was

not only a result of rhythmic movement and the built-in

rest. There were other elements that I’d intuitively

included: daily-life connection, humor, exaggerated

contrast, and power struggle.  All of these are part of the

 story.  I used similar elements to create other songs.

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