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She gets it from her mother, who got it from her mother, who got it from her mother who, yes, got it from her mother. Count them: five generations of music teachers passing on the love.

Noseworthy鈥檚 classroom at the Valley View Community School in Farmington, N.H., is full of instruments: a guitar, a piano, multiple barred instruments (xylophones, metallophones and glockenspiels), tambourines and homemade drums fashioned from empty gallon paint cans. Real drumsticks. 听

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The middle of the classroom floor is marked with long strips of colored tape that form a musical staff. Students (the school serves kindergarten through third grade) come up and toss beanbags on the lines and then tell Noseworthy what note they鈥檝e hit. Lined cookie sheets and magnets used to represent the notes act as a similar assessment tool.

Noseworthy听uses a parachute to demonstrate musical form听鈥斕�changes that happen in a piece of music 鈥�听and creates activities from children's books, singing about a particular event and using instruments to narrate the characters.听

Her mother, Susan Noseworthy, has taught music at the Lincoln Street School in Exeter for more than 30 years. She is an adjunct professor at 91制片厂 and the choir director at the family鈥檚 church, a job she took over from her mother.

鈥淢y mother is the most passionate, energetic person about music that I know. Seeing that as a kid, I just ate it up,鈥� Noseworthy says. 鈥淚 thought, 鈥榃ow, I didn鈥檛 know a job could be so much fun.鈥欌��

She began playing the violin when she was 7 years old after seeing the instrument for the first time during a visit to her mother鈥檚 classroom.

鈥淚 said I鈥檇 like to try it, and the following day she brought one home. By the next week, I was signed up for lessons,鈥� Noseworthy says. 鈥淪ticking with it has been a love-hate thing. It became the one thing I couldn鈥檛 let go.鈥�

Two years after she started playing, Noseworthy joined the community orchestra. Then, while a student at Newmarket High School, she played with the Phillips Exeter Academy orchestra. From seventh through 12^th grade, she attended the (SYMS) at 91制片厂. All of her school friends were athletes. Attending SYMS, she says, changed her life.

鈥淚t opened my eyes. At SYMS I found people who had the same interests. I wasn鈥檛 the only one who loved music,鈥� she says, adding that some of her closest friends today are people she met during those summer camps.

When she was a senior in college, knowing she wanted to teach elementary school, Noseworthy decided to learn to play the guitar so she could accompany her future students while they were singing. 听She only learned the piano because 91制片厂 requires two years of instruction for all music majors. 鈥淚鈥檓 so glad for that,鈥� she says.

At the Valley View School, Noseworthy starts Friday mornings by playing the violin or guitar for her students. If she plays a piece of music the children haven鈥檛 heard before, most of them will look around to see the reactions of others. By the second time she plays it, they have scarves in their hands and are moving to the beat.

鈥淚 can tell when the kids understand the rhythm. Some of them move slower; I can see they are actively listening,鈥� the Newmarket native says. 鈥淭hen they start swaying or dancing. I love watching the different ways they express themselves.鈥澨�

She also loves to hear them sing.

鈥淲e sing every day, in every class period. Sometimes we sing our attendance,鈥� says Noseworthy, who spent a semester with the 91制片厂 choir.

She sees it as her job to help students find their way to music, however that may translate. They can sing, or play an instrument or simply listen and find what she finds, and that is, 鈥淧eace and joy,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 hope that I can open their eyes to what music can offer.鈥�

With the kindergarteners, it鈥檚 all about the beat. First graders learn to read basic rhythm patterns. Second graders are taught to read, speak and perform musical patterns. By the time they finish third grade, students are expected to understand music vocabulary and be able to read and perform music on the treble clef.

As a student at 91制片厂, Noseworthy says that while she was musical, she wasn鈥檛 very music knowledgeable. Playing wasn鈥檛 the same as knowing theory.

鈥淚t took many office hours, many tutors to get me through, but I knew I didn鈥檛 want to give up,鈥� she says. 鈥淎nd now, here I am; I made it. I feel really lucky. I鈥檓 living the dream.鈥澨�

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