Music and Me

Suzuki Baby Music
Pre-Natal Music Classes & Music Classes for Parent and Baby in Houston

Pre-Natal Music and Relaxation
A Four-Week Class for Moms-To-Be
The sense of hearing is strongly developed in the womb and babies are born able to recognize their parents' voice. What types of music are most beneficial to the developing child? Current research indicates visible benefits to babies who listen to music pre-natally. In addition, a stronger bond forms between parent and child. Learn more in this four-week class for expectant moms (and dads!).

Early Childhood Music
Music for Parent and Baby (ages newborn through 3 years old)
Current research shows that babies who are exposed to music form stronger neural connections and are therefore more able to handle higher-level thinking skills later in life.

“Recent studies also show that from the twenty-fourth week on, the unborn child listens all the time.

“Moreover, in an arresting series of new studies audiobiologist Michele Clements has shown that the unborn child has distinct musical likes and dislikes – and discriminating ones at that.

“….Vivaldi is one of the unborn child’s favorite composers; Mozart is another. Whenever one of their soaring compositions was put on a record player, reports Dr. Clements, fetal heart rates invariably steadied and kicking declined. The music of Brahms and Beethoven and all kinds of rock, on the other hand, drove most fetuses to distraction. They kicked violently when records of these composers were played to their pregnant mothers.”

“It’s even possible to begin teaching an unborn baby. At the very least, a pregnant woman who spends a few minutes each day listening to soothing music could make her child feel more relaxed and tranquil. At most, that early exposure might create in the child a lifelong musical interest.” The Secret Life of the Unborn Child (Thomas Verny, M.D. with John Kelly)

“The long-term effect of prenatal stimulation programmes on developmental achievement and intellectual function has been the subject of several recent research programmes… The literature holds a wealth of information regarding the influences of early stimulation on the fetus…The evidence of auditory discrimination, memory and learning which occurs from the fetal stage indicates the vital role which parents, caregivers and society should play in the provision of optimal sound environments from before birth.”

“If a parallel is drawn between music and spoken language, then it is indicated that the presence and quality of the musical environment before the age of two is of the utmost significance in the development of auditory processing skills…” (“Musical Origins;” an article by Professor Sheila Woodward, University of Capetown, South Africa)