EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC PLAY LABORATORY
The MSU Early Childhood Music Play Laboratory provides caregiver-child classes at MSU’s Community Music Schools in East Lansing and Detroit as well as outreach classes in community settings including childcare facilities, preschools, and more.
The Michigan State University Community Music School (CMS) mission is to provide a creative and welcoming environment where music experiences, education and therapy services inspire individuals at all ability levels and stages of life to achieve their personal best. Founded on the belief that music dramatically enhances the quality of life, CMS offers opportunities for the study, appreciation and therapeutic use of music while nurturing the musical development of all.
The MSU Early Childhood Music Play Laboratory advances this mission for children ages birth-7 years old and their families.
We envision children and families
thriving in and through music making.
To that end...
high-quality, sequential, developmentally appropriate music play classes for children (and families, where applicable).
children and families across ability differences, socioeconomic and cultural groups by reducing barriers to access and creating culturally sustaining and ability-responsive music environments.
family wellbeing as well as child development across domains of functioning (musical, physical/sensory, social/emotional, cognitive, communication).
future early childhood music educators.
research that elucidates and advances each of these goals.