Space Audiation

by Edwin E. Gordon

In this monograph perhaps the most important Dr. Edwin E. Gordon has written in his career as the preeminent music education researcher Gordon states that space audiation is what ties the musical threads of rhythm, melody, harmony, improvisation, creativity, and expression together. Space audiation in music, writes Edwin E. Gordon, refers to the interior motion of the mind as opposed to the exterior movement of the body. Space audiation is a template for accuracy and sensitivity in music. Through space audiation, musicians would not perceive rhythm as linear, as one example. Rather, musicians would perceive macrobeats, microbeats, and rhythm patterns internally in the mind without center or boundaries. Space audiation, Gordon states, is what connects and unifies the beats and patterns in music.

70 pages, Paperback

Published April 8, 2015