12 week semester
This 35-min class introduces playful musical activity to help you and your baby bond and have fun at the same time. Activities include bouncing and rocking songs, wiggle and peek-a boo games, signing, dancing and moving.
Musical interaction benefits your child in so many ways, as it demonstrates love and security, increases your baby's natural curiosity about music, and develops listening skills as well as a sense of flow and beat through movement. An excellent recording provides a model and recourse for home activities, bringing the joy of musical play to daily life.
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Materials include Baby Packet 1 with recording (CD plus a digital download), Parent Book and a Baby Instrument Kit, including 2 rhythm sticks, a wooden rattle and a scarf in a cloth bag.
$65 registration/materials, $145 tuition.
Total: $210
MUSIC FOR TODDLERS (Walkers-3 YEARS)
12 week semester
Join us for a 40-minute class that will bring the joy of music and movement to you and your young child, from walkers to 3 years! Learn musically with your child through singing, dancing, focused listening, exploring and playing instruments. This class environment promotes the development of your child's music aptitude and skills as well as attention, impulse control and language skills. Through simple echo games, little children begin to hear and perform a vocabulary of rhythm and melody patterns, the building blocks of music! Parents are encouraged to repeat music activities at home, to continue the fun and learning throughout the week.
Class time options:
Tuesday, 10:00-10:40am
Materials include a child's picture songbook, and a recording (CD plus digital download) to continue musical play at home or for listening in the car.
$70 registration/materials, $165 tuition.
Total: $235
Materials include CD, picture book for child with parent education notes and an instrument
CYCLE OF THE SEASONS (3-4 YEARS)
12 week semester
This 45 minute class connects the child's world with the natural world while nurturing the emerging independence of three-and four year olds. Activities include singing, stories and rhymes, listening games, playing instruments, patterns to echo, and movement games, all of which promote musical development while satisfying the child's need to learn in a creative, holistic environment. In this class, children progress to a new level where they are able to...
play rhythm and melody patterns on instruments,
sing entire songs,
create their own movement and instrument ideas,
verbalize and describe their ideas, promoting language learning.
parents stay for the class, although some of the activities are designed to encourage the children to participate independently of their parents.
The home materials packet allows the learning and fun to continue at home.
Materials Cycle of the Seasons with recording (2 CDs plus digital download), a parent book, 12 animal cards.
$85 registration/materials, $170 tuition.
Total: $255
Thursdays: 4:00 - 4:45pm
MUSIC MAKERS: AT HOME IN THE WORLD ( AGES 4 & 6 YEARS)
12 week semester
Join us for exciting adventures with music inspired by natural habitat themes! This sixty- minute class cultivates the child's musical development through singing, echoing and playing tonal and rhythm patterns, poetry and stories, movement activities, listening games and exploration of instrument families. Rudimentary music skills in pitch matching, rhythm and beat competency, building instrument ensembles, and music notation will be developed through carefully-planned sequences. Such skills greatly enhance the child's readiness to begin piano study in a few years! Caregivers share in the last 15 min of class.
Children receive 2 packets each 12 week semester, each including: a recording (CD plus digital download for each), nature folder and games pieces, notation games, posters of instrument groups, and a parent book.
Class time:
TBA
$90 registration/materials, $180 tuition.
Total:$270
MUSIC MAKERS: AROUND THE WORLD (AGES 5-7 YEARS)
12 week semester
Come celebrate the music of cultures around the world! This seventy five-minute Music Makers: Around the World class for 5 -to 7- year olds is a perfect follow-up to Music Makers: At Home in the World, but we also welcome new students to join in the fun and learning.
In this class, children explore the music, dances and stories of different cultures. The key music ingredients are singing, listening, playing instruments, movement, tonal and rhythm patterns, as well as chording and ensemble work. By echoing and playing patterns, the children will build a vocabulary of musical phrases which they can recognize aurally and visually, leading to an understanding of musical notation. Culminating celebrations of each culture, through music, foods and participation in special traditions, are highlights for the children.
Caregivers join in the last 15 minutes. Music Makers: Around the World classes are an excellent preparation for studying piano in Music Makers: At the Keyboard next year.
Children receive 2 packets each 12 week semester, each including: recording, (CD plus digital download for each), a map, song pages, and notation games.
Class time:
Mondays, 3:45 - 5:00pm
$90 registration/materials, $180 tuition.
Total: $270
MUSIC MAKERS: BEGINNERS AT THE KEYBOARD (MINIMUM AGE: 61/2, 7 or 8 )
15 week semester
Wednesdays, 4:55 - 6:10pm
Keyboard Year One
Extending our pathway to music literacy and skills to an instrument, Musikgarten Music Makers: At the Keyboard piano program teaches the children to play the songs they've been hearing, singing, moving to, and enjoying in earlier years! Progressing on from the Music Makers: Around the World, this 75 minute class follows a very sequential approach to building piano skills, developing the ability to improvise and compose, and understanding musical notation. Parents are required to participate in the final fifteen minutes of class, and are encouraged to attend the entire class as much as possible. This is an amazing program, but success requires the support of an adult committed to working with the child during the first year.
(Six-year-olds who have not been in a previous Musikgarten program should start at the previous level: Music Makers: Around the World).
Children will receive a music book for playing pieces, aural perception training, composing, and theory work. Materials also include 2 recordings (CD plus digital download for each), rhythm and melody notation/reading games, binder with binder pouch, a Musikgarten tote bag, and a parent handbook.
$100 registration/materials, $380 tuition for the first semester.
$480 includes materials and tuition for the first semester.
Second semester: $65 registration/materials, $380 tuiton.
Second semester total: $445.
MUSIC MAKERS: AT THE KEYBOARD 2 (GRADUATE OF KEYBOARD 1)
15 week semester
Wednesdays, 3:30-4:45pm (year 2)
Keyboard Year Two
(Prerequisite: Music Makers: At the Keyboard, Year One)
Musikgarten children come to the piano ready to play the songs they have learned to sing, dance and love. Small group lessons at the keyboard capitalize on your child's delight in making music with others and allow the children to have success quickly playing songs that they know. In this second year of the program, your child will continue to learn to play by ear, with an increasing emphasis placed upon music reading skills. A much-loved piano repertoire of familiar songs along with new, unfamiliar reading pieces improves his/her ability to read, memorize and play with fluency-resulting in pride and excitement in making music!
To continue the fun at home you will again receive 1 listening CD and 1 practice CD (along with digital downloads for each), with special tracks to practice each week. Notation games, repertoire pieces, sight-reading pieces, study of composers and styles of music, opportunities for composing and improvising, and more comprise you child's comprehensive learning materials that will help him/her stay excited about playing and encourage him/her to make music long after the lessons stop.
$65 registration/materilas, $380 tuiton.
$445 total per semester.
MUSIC MAKERS: AT THE KEYBOARD 3 (GRADUATE OF KEYBOARD 2)
15 week semester
Tuesdays, 5:00-6:15pm (year 3)
Wednesdays, 5:00-6:15pm (year 4)
Keyboard Year Three
(Prerequisite: Music Makers: At the Keyboard, Year Two)
In many ways, MMK Year 3 is the most fun of all! In addition to continuing the tracks of reading, playing by ear, composing and improvising, the students now move into new levels of music skill and knowledge. In this 75 minute class, your child will read and play ensemble music, drum to complex rhythm scores, write compositions and perform piano music written by famous composers, from Haydn to Kabalevsky, just to name a few! Graduates of this program have the confidence and understanding that comes from enjoying and performing music in a group setting. They easily move on to private instrumental study in the future, and also are excellent singers, able to match pitch and sight singing new melodies!
$65 registration/materilas, $380 tution.
$445 total per semester.
MUSIKGARTEN ADULTS: ENJOYING THE PIANO TOGETHER (19-99)
9 week semester
45 minute class
Whether you are an adult beginner who has always wanted to play the piano, or someone who studied a little a long time ago, this is the class for you! Join the Recreational Music-Making movement, learning to play the piano in a supportive group setting. Our thorough preparation of concepts nurtures each individual's abilities, so that producing music on the piano or keyboard is an enjoyable and successful experience. The sequential curriculum leads to a strong foundation in both hearing and reading music. Nine classes per semester develop threads in the following areas:
Technique
Playing by Ear
Reading Music at the piano
Ensemble playing
Music Appreciation of form, classical repertoire and history
ALL new material is reviewed and developed for several weeks.
Class option: TBA
Materials:
Student Book: songs, theory, music appreciation, reading pieces
CD: songs, exercises for rhythm work, and listening, and exercises for ear training and progressive music reading.
Notation games: quarter-and eighth notes; melody patterns
$230 includes 9 classes and materials
Family Music for Babies, Mankato (Newborns - Walkers)
12 week session
All babies are born with an aptitude for music. But research shows that their aptitude diminishes if it is not nurtured. The best way to nurture a child's music aptitude is through active music making. By singing and dancing for and with our children in a variety of tonalities, meters and styles we are helping our children reach their full music potential.
This class offers adults the opportunity to play with their babies in a musical setting, experiencing music and movement activities designed to delight the child and awaken his or her curiosity about music. By singing, dancing, bouncing, and rocking, the child's music aptitude is being carefully nurtured, laying the foundation for beat awareness, vocal production, and aural discrimination.
Activities include singing, bouncing songs, rocking songs, dances, finger plays, body awareness games and echoes.
| Tuition: | 135 |
| Materials: | 55 |
| Total: | 190 |
Family Music for Babies and Toddlers, Mankato (Walkers - 3 Years)
12 week session
This class is designed to bring the joy of music and movement to toddlers and their caregivers.
Activities include singing, dancing, focused listening and simple instrument playing, creating an environment in which the child's music aptitude is nurtured and skills are developed.
| Tuition: | 145 |
| Materials: | 65 |
| Total: | 210 |
Cycle of Seasons, Mankato (Ages 3s and Young 4s)
12 week session
This class is designed to nurture the emergent independence of the 3 and young 4 year old.
Activities include lots of singing, chants and rhymes, listening games, patterns to echo, and movement games, all of which nurture the child's musical development while satisfying the child's need to learn in a holistic environment.
Parents stay for the class, although some of the activities are designed to have the children participate independently of their parents.
Home materials (3 packets throughout year) including a CD, songbook, and manipulatives allow the learning and fun to continue at home.
| Tuition: | 160 |
| Materials: | 70 |
| Total: | 230 |
Music Makers: Around the World, Mankato (Ages 4 & 5 Years)
12 week session
This class cultivates the child's musical development through songs, tonal and rhythm patterns, poetry and stories, movement activities, listening games, instrumental play and manipulative games. Rudimentary music skills such as pitch matching, beat competency, ensemble development, and music notation are dealt with using themes taken from the child's home environment and natural surroundings.
Material packets include a CD, a poster and game pieces, notation games, instrument pages and a book. Children receive 4 packets throughout the 26-week session.
| Tuition: | 170 |
| Materials: | 80 |
| Total: | 250 |
Music Makers:At Home in the World (6-7)
12 weeks
| Tuition: | 170 |
| Materials: | 80 |
| Total: | 250 |
Music Makers at the Keyboard III, Mankato (Graduates of keyboard II)
15 week session MMK Year 3
| Tuition: | 370 |
| Materials: | 65 |
| Total: | 435 |
Music Makers: Beginners At the Keyboard I, Mankato (61/2 - 8)
15 week session MMK Beginner
The final step on the pathway to music literacy, this program is designed to teach the children to play the songs they've been hearing, singing, and dancing to throughout the years of early-childhood. An extension of the work done in Music Makers: Around the World, this class follows a very sequential approach to building piano skills and understanding musical notation as set forth in the books, Music Makers: At the Keyboard.
Children will receive 2 books, including 4 CDs and notation games plus a Parent Handbook throughout the 26 weeks.
| Tuition: | 370 |
| Materials: | 100 |
| Total: | 470 |
Music Makers: At the Keyboard II Mankato (Graduates of Keyboard I)
MMK year 2, 15 week session
| Tuition: | 370 |
| Materials: | 65 |
| Total: | 435 |
Musikgarten Adult: enjoying the piano together (19 -99)
30-40 minutes for 8 weeks
Two eight week programs of 30-40 mins each:
1. Nimble & Quick
2. Twist & Turn
Musikgarten’s All Together Now recaptures the magic of nursery rhymes (a wonderful part of our cultural tradition featuring delightful language and playful rhythms) in a versatile mixed-age curricula for children birth to four. There is lots of movement for those toddlers, while three year-olds and older will learn language skills and use their imaginations in fun new ways.
Each program is full of music, movement, imagination, and class time fun. The unique Music for Movement compositions on the CDs will enable children to explore walking and jumping (Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick), twisting and turning (Oliver Twist, you can’t do this!) and many more concepts which are just right for your toddler movers and shakers! Both children and parents will find that after just one class, they’ll look forward to many more!
Parents will receive a family packet with CD, parent book and either an instrument or manipulative.