Edwin E. Gordon, Research Professor at the University of South Carolina's Gordon Archive, is an influential researcher, teacher, author, editor, and lecturer in the field of music education. Through extensive research, Gordon has made major contributions to the study of music aptitudes, audiation, Music Learning Theory, rhythm in movement and music, and music development in infants and very young children.
He is the author of several seminal works in the field of music education, including Learning Sequences in Music: Skill, Content, and Patterns (ISBN 1579990045); A Music Learning Theory for Newborn and Young Children (ISBN 1579992595); and Preparatory Audiation, Audiation, and Music Learning Theory (ISBN 1579991335).
Gordon received his bachelors and masters degrees in string bass performance from the Eastman School of Music, a second masters degree in education from Ohio University, and the Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Before turning his attention solely toward the field of music education, he played string bass with the Gene Krupa band.
Gordon continues to present seminars and lectures throughout the world, in addition to being widely published in international research and professional journals.
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Music learning theory includes eight levels of skill in two basic categories, discrimination and inference.
Students perform a music task to correspond to the teacher's performed example.
Patterns that are unfamiliar to students are incorporated into the learning process.
The two separate sequences are tonal and rhythm.
The Jump Right In series uses music learning theory.
Mark, M.L. (1986). Contemporary Music Education. New York: Schirmer Books.
Gordon, E. (1984). Learning Sequences in Music: Skill, Content, and Patterns. Chicago: G.I.A. Publications.
Gordon, E. (1971). The Psychology of Music Teaching. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.