The Harmony Road Music School offers an exciting and comprehensive music program, designed to help children discover the world of music through motivating materials and activities which develop the whole child.

Hearing ... feeling ... moving ... singing ... creating ... sharing ... reading ... and playing music ... children absorb and store musical patterns and concepts for enjoyment and growth in all of their musical endeavors.

The Harmony Road Music Course (harmonyroadmusic.com) has evolved from a lifetime of musical involvement with young children. Harmony Road founder, composer and writer, Jan Keyser, developed the first courses in 1981 and has continued to provide high quality, research-based curriculum to fill the needs of young students and their families.

Amy Allen began offering group music classes through her studio to pre-schoolers in Paducah in 1992, and became certified as a Harmony Road teacher in 1997. Presently at the Harmony Road Music School, Amy and her staff teach Harmony Road curriculum courses to children of all ages.

The Harmony Road courses offered are age appropriate, with motivating materials, cassettes and CDs. Classes for adult beginners are planned for the near future.

WHY START EARLY?

Recent research confirms that children's early experiences, especially in language and music, can affect them for the rest of their lives. A child who learns a second language early will speak easily and with the proper accent.

In much the same way, a child who experiences, and then has hands-on activities with melody, rhythm, timbre, and all the elements of music will be comfortable with performing and creating music as he or she matures. We would not expect a child to wait to talk until he could read, nor should we want to deprive students of a whole world of musical growth until they can perceive note reading.