Music for Young Children
The Music for Young Children program has the goal of creating the happy habit of learning music. Games, stories, keyboard and rhythm ensembles, and singing are used to introduce the many aspects of music to MYC students. Parents assist their children in the classes and so are well-prepared to help with home practicing. The class is fun, energetic and interactive: not your old-fashioned piano lessons!
$240 per 12-week session ($20 per 1-hr. class)*, plus materials
First session of 2012-2013 begins the week of September 24th.
A beginner piano class for 3- and 4-year-olds.
In Sunshine I, students begin by learning keyboard geography, and are able to play a full C major scale by the end of the year. At the beginning of the year, we use a pre-staff notation using pictures of the keyboard “critters”, and by the end of the year, the students are reading from the staff up to five notes: middle C, treble clef D and E, and bass clef A and B. They also learn rhythm notation, dynamics and time signatures. There is a strong emphasis on listening skills for these young students.
Students entering the MYC program at the Sunshine I level will complete the program in five years: one year each in Sunshine I, Sunshine II, Sunbeams II, Sunbeams III, and Moonbeams III. Upon graduation from the MYC program, students are ready to sit the grade one piano examination from the Royal Conservatory of Music, and are exceptionally well-prepared to enter into private lessons and continue with the Royal Conservatory program.
Goals for Sunshine I include:
- Create a positive happy habit of learning music
- Develop their listening skills
- Master the music alphabet from A to G and play the same in the form of the C major scale on the keyboard
- Recognize and reproduce on the keyboard high, middle, and low sounds
- Recognize patterns and play patterns on the keyboard by ear.
- Begin reading notes on the staff: By the end of the year the students will recognize middle C, treble clef D and E, and bass clef A and B.
- Use 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 time signatures.
- Use whole note, half note, quarter note and eighth notes in singing, clapping, dictation and music reading
- Become aware of their individual fingers and develop fine motor control in order to use fingers individually.
- Learn the level of sound in the daily lives which can be incorporated into their music, using dynamics: ff, f, p, pp, crescendo, decrescendo.
- Play in a recital.
*lump-sum payment discount and installment plans available
$240 per 12-week session ($20 per 1-hr. class)*, plus materials
First session of 2012-2013 begins the week of September 24th.
A beginner piano class for 5- and 6-year-olds.
In Sunbeams I, students begin by learning keyboard geography, and then learn to play songs and scales in C major, G major, and a minor. We cover note reading in the treble and bass clefs, rhythm notation, dynamics and time signatures. The children learn solfege, music history, and simple transposition and harmonization of tunes.
Students entering the MYC program at the Sunbeams I level will complete the program in four years: one year each in Sunbeams I, Sunbeams II, Sunbeams III, and Moonbeams III. Upon graduation from the MYC program, students are ready to sit the grade one piano examination from the Royal Conservatory of Music, and are exceptionally well-prepared to enter into private lessons and continue with the Royal Conservatory program.
Goals for Sunbeams I include:
- play short songs, studies, scales, and primary chords in C major, G major, and a minor.
- learn note reading from middle C to high C in the treble clef and low B to ledger line D in the bass clef.
- use whole note, half note, dotted half note, quarter note, eighth notes, triplet, quarter rest, half rest and whole rest in rhythm dictation, singing, clapping, and in keyboard and rhythm ensembles.
- learn time signatures of 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4
- learn dynamics and other musical terms: ff, f, p, pp, crescendo, decrescendo, sharp, double bar line, fermata.
- use the 2 hands separately and together at the keyboard and to use individual fingers.
- learn transposition of some pieces from C major into G major and a minor.
- play simple nursery rhymes by ear.
- learn solfege using hand signs for do, re, mi, so and la
- apply musical knowledge to compose own music
- play in a recital.
*lump-sum payment discount and installment plans available
$240 per 12-week session ($20 per 1-hr. class)*, plus materials
First session of 2012-2013 begins the week of September 24th.
A beginner piano class for children in grades 2, 3, and 4.
In Moonbeams I, students begin by learning keyboard geography, and learn to play songs and scales in number of major and minor keys. We cover note reading in the treble and bass clefs, rhythm notation, dynamics and time signatures. The children learn solfege, music history, composition, and simple transposition and harmonization of tunes.
Students entering the MYC program at the Moonbeams I level will complete the program in three years: one year each in Moonbeams I, Moonbeams II (Sunbeams III may substitute), and Moonbeams III. Upon graduation from the MYC program, students are ready to sit the grade one piano examination from the Royal Conservatory of Music, and are exceptionally well-prepared to enter into private lessons and continue with the Royal Conservatory program.
Goals for Moonbeams I include:
- play short songs, studies, scales, and primary chords in C major, G major, F major, D major, a minor, e minor and d minor.
- learn note reading in the treble clef and bass clef.
- use whole note, half note, dotted half note, quarter note, eighth notes, triplet, quarter rest, half rest and whole rest in rhythm dictation, singing, clapping, and in keyboard and rhythm ensembles.
- learn time signatures of 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4
- learn dynamics and other musical terms: ff, f, p, pp, crescendo, decrescendo, sharp, double bar line, fermata.
- use the 2 hands separately and together at the keyboard and to use individual fingers.
- learn transposition of simple songs into a number of major and minor keys.
- play simple nursery rhymes and complete tunes by ear.
- learn solfege using hand signs for do, re, mi, so, and la.
- apply musical knowledge to compose own music
- play in a recital.
*lump-sum payment discount and installment plans available
