Traditional music education puts note reading high on its list of priorities. Despite the lack of the ability of many children to sing in tune or to move rhythmically and with style, we teach them to decipher the code of musical notation. "F is the first space. A whole note gets four counts. Etc."...
Audiation, in the simplest terms, is defined as hearing music that is not physically present. And for Dr. Edwin Gordon, the acclaimed music researcher, music professor and author who coined the phrase, it is the foundation of all music learning.