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Musical intelligence - how to encourage

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JumpJockey · 02/05/2012 10:54

ok so maybe this is us massively over- interpreting, but dh and I who are both singers think dd1 (3.3) is showing signs of some real musical understanding. She can sing in tune very well, both accompanied and on her own, which is fairly normal, but just recently we were listening to some choral music and she started singing along to something she'd not heard before - pitching and anticipating notes correctly, singing the 3rd of a final chord, and even making up something in the musical style of what she'd been listening to (tudor polyphony so not exactly nursery rhymes).

What's the best way to encourage this and help her develop? We do lots of singing and she likes to pretend to play my guitar, but other than that are there any other activities to help her keep this going? The music groups we've tried are usually just nursery rhymes, banging drums etc, and often the standard of the instructors isn't great (not in tune etc) which doesn't help what she's already good at.

Am at computer intermittemtly atm so am not ignoring any replies, will check back tomorrow! Thanks :)

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