Edwin Gordon is one of the several influential educators in the music education field. Gordon is well known as a researcher, educator, and creator of the music learning theory. He has also made important contributions to the field of music education by creating music aptitude testing that can be used in the classroom for all ages.
Gordon began is education career as a string bass performance major at Eastman School of Music where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. After graduating he performed with the Gene Krupa band playing string bass. After his stint as a musician he went on to earn his Ph.D from University of Iowa in 1958. This led the beginning of his career at Temple University in Philadelphia as Professor of Research in Music Education that lasted from 1979 to 1997. Before he accepted the position at Temple University, he was Professor of Music at the State of University of New York and University of Iowa. (GIML) …show more content…
Audiation is a term that means to feel to feel tonal and rhythmic patterns internally. Complete musical understanding can happen only when a student has a vocabulary of tonal and rhythmic patterns. That knowledge can lead to a complete understanding of the tonal and rhythm content of a piece of music. This included being able to audiate, for example the resting tone, tonal function, and macro and micro beats. They also have to be able to conceive how those patterns fit together to make musical sense. (Woodford, p.
Gordon began is education career as a string bass performance major at Eastman School of Music where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. After graduating he performed with the Gene Krupa band playing string bass. After his stint as a musician he went on to earn his Ph.D from University of Iowa in 1958. This led the beginning of his career at Temple University in Philadelphia as Professor of Research in Music Education that lasted from 1979 to 1997. Before he accepted the position at Temple University, he was Professor of Music at the State of University of New York and University of Iowa. (GIML) …show more content…
Audiation is a term that means to feel to feel tonal and rhythmic patterns internally. Complete musical understanding can happen only when a student has a vocabulary of tonal and rhythmic patterns. That knowledge can lead to a complete understanding of the tonal and rhythm content of a piece of music. This included being able to audiate, for example the resting tone, tonal function, and macro and micro beats. They also have to be able to conceive how those patterns fit together to make musical sense. (Woodford, p.