Music Learning Theory is an explanation of how we learn when we learn music.
Based on an extensive body of research and practical field testing by Edwin E. Gordon and others, Music Learning Theory is a comprehensive method for teaching audiation, Gordon's term for the ability to hear and comprehend in one’s mind the sound of music.

The principles of Music Learning Theory guide music teachers working in different contexts in establishing sequential curricular goals in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs. The primary objective is the development of students' tonal and rhythm audiation.
Through audiation students are able to draw greater meaning from the music they listen to, perform, improvise, and compose.

The dialogue has been included in the book "In Dialogue" about the Symposium published by Schott.

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