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Kindermusik is dedicated to bringing you and your child this variety of high quality musical recordings
for essential, developmental reasons:
Greater language proficiency—Just as you read a variety of books to expand your child's
vocabulary, exposure to a wide variety of music and sounds expands your child's "ear vocabulary."
High quality musical recordings and real instruments help your child "fine tune" her ear to recognize
and imitate the sounds that make up words and language.
Spatial awareness—When a child listens to music, her mind perceives the sound in multi-
dimensional ways. The sound is loud or soft, fast or slow, it moves up and down, or left to right.
Eventually, she'll use that "awareness of space" to work with her body when she walks through the
living room and tries not to hit the coffee table. Much later, this same awareness is necessary skill for
learning how to get around things, jump, run, and move in zig-zag ways.
Temporal reasoning—You hear this skill in action when a preschooler tells a story. He starts with his
own experience and then moves to some imagined place with a princess or a superhero then goes
back to something real again. Music does the same thing. It goes back and forth between established
places (the chorus) and to new places that take you somewhere else (the verse). The ability to go back
and forth from something established to something imagined comes from temporal reasoning, a skill
used in music writing, storytelling, and problem solving.
Emotional intelligence—With exposure to a greater variety of musical styles—like jazz, folk, or
classical, this increased exposure to music increases a child's awareness, and understanding of
different moods and emotions.
Here is just a sample of the variety of music you'll hear this term in a Kindermusik class.
Village
Zum Gali Gali (Israel)
Les raftsmen (Canada)
The Keel Row (Northumberland)
May There Always Be Sunshine (Russia)
Our Time
Duermete, mi nino (Latin America)
Fais do-do (France)
Shake Hands (African-American)
The Muffin Man (England)
Imagine That!
Uskudar (Turkey)
Funiculi Funicula (Italy)
Siyahamba (Zulu)
Rain or Shine (Texas, United States)
Young Child
The Nutcracker Suite (Russia)
Ho Ho Wantany, (Native American)
Good News (African American)
Rig a jig jig (England)
