The Music One-to-One project: developing approaches to music with parents and under-two-year-olds.

Detailed analyses of adult-infant interaction among some European and North American populations have revealed that it resides on characteristics such as synchronous timing, phrasing, pitch contours and variations of dynamic intensity that are essentially musical in nature. Moreover, this musicality of infancy is the medium which enables and supports the development of early communication. Observations of practice and interviews with 15 early childhood music practitioners in England suggested that a consensual version of practice has evolved around the collective rendering of playful songs and musical activities. However, this version of practice does not offer infant-appropriate musical experiences which might foster communicative musicality. The aim of the Music One-to-One project was to apply recent theories of infant musicality to practice... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]