Traditional American Appalachian music, a rich treasury of beautiful melodies and toe-tapping rhythms having its roots in the traditional music of Ireland, Scotland and England, is a featured musical style this semester. We begin to learn our first stringed-instrument! First, you and your child will build a two-stringed dulcimer instrument with materials that we’ll provide. Then in class we’ll learn to play chords and simple melodies on the instrument you built together. We’ll also explore rhythm concepts through dance with an introduction to the basic steps in jazz, ballet, and tap dances.

Your Home Materials include dulcimer-making materials, activity cards, and music that features recordings from Appalachia, African-America, and Native American music, as well as the Western Art music of the Nutcracker Suite.

Home Materials:

• Children’s Folder with stickers
• games bag
• Music At Home Cards
• Family Songbook
• Home CD of music from class
• dulcimer