Early Childhood Music
Why This Topic Matters
A music session with young children can look like play, and it is. It is also a setting where children practise listening, joining in, and using their voices and bodies with other people.
What Children Do in a Music Session
Children take part in different ways, and all of them count. Some sing along from the first day. Others watch for several weeks, then start joining in with a movement, a sound, or a single word of a song.
Across a typical session, children have opportunities to listen closely, move to a steady beat, try out their singing voices, play simple instruments, and follow what is happening around them. Over time, those opportunities add up to a growing familiarity with music itself.
Why Familiar Songs Come Back
Songs and activities repeat from week to week on purpose. Repetition gives a child time to move from watching to trying, and from trying to leading. A song a child barely noticed in September can become the one they ask for by name in January.
Music Outside the Music Session
Music travels easily. A song from class turns up during clean-up, on the walk home, or at bedtime, and it can become something a family does together rather than something that only happens at school.
That is why participating children’s immediate families receive a songbook, CD, digital access code and access to the free app, and why classroom teachers receive resources for continuing music-making between visits.
For Schools
Bringing Music Into the Early Childhood Classroom
Bracy’s Music Together brings developmentally appropriate music and movement experiences into UPK/Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms during the school day.
Participating classrooms receive 30 weekly sessions during the academic year, with classroom teachers participating alongside their students and resources that help music-making continue beyond the specialist’s visit.
Updated September 2026. This resource was rewritten as original Bracy’s Music Together content. The previous version is kept in this site’s revision history.