Your child’s little musical mind now has greater understanding to bring to a new encounter with an old song or chant.  A Tonal or Rhythm Activity from an earlier CCS Class takes on new meaning in a later Class.  The more advanced aural setting might include different contrasting activities or a series of activities in the same tonality or meter.  The familiar song or chant might be used to develop more advanced skills, to refresh a particular tonality or meter in your little one’s musical imagination, to introduce an Art Song, or to sustain Tonal or Rhythm development while the prime focus is on the other.  The increasing “Playing Music” options provide many ways to make an old song or chant come alive in a new way for your child.  (Music Content is listed within each CCS Lesson and will always indicate if the recording is a repeat.) 

It is important to both language development and music development that your child hears the familiar in new contexts.  With language, you talk to your child from day one.  You may still use some of the same phrases, but now your child has greater understanding to bring to your words.  You may have said admiringly to your infant, “Aren’t you beautiful?”  Your toddler many hear the same phrase, but can now process your inflection, expression, tone of voice, and body language, and know whether you are marveling about his wonder or about the food all over his face.