Sound and rhythm are our life, an integral part of our world and therefore of the child's environment today as ever before. Music and the Young Child Before birth, the fetus is surrounded by sounds, rhythm and movement. It is sensitive to the rhythmical impulses of the maternal organism. The embryo can hear music from the outside world, as research has proved. It is the world of an infinite variation of sounds.
Sound presupposes a meaning, an intention or a feeling.
A sound differs greatly from noise. The Oxford dictionary says that a sound conveys a specific impression , while a noise is a clamor, a din, a continuous roar of confused noise . A baby's first cry is a sound. Babies communicate long before they are able to use words. The variety of sounds they use manifests their needs and their feelings.