Wybrane refleksje nad audiacją gordonowską
Selected Reflections on E.E. Gordon’s Audiation

Summary/Abstract: This article defines the concept of musical audiation and attempts to confront Edwin E. Gordon’s theory of music learning with pedagogical, psychological and philosophical thought concerning the issues discussed. The main aim of the author’s considerations is to reflect upon the category of audiation, understood as a kind of musical thinking, and which is the basis for musical talent and achievements and considered to be a key concept and pillar in the theory of learning music by the American music educator and psychologist E. E. Gordon. Audiation is considered in several contexts: definitional and syntactical, the teaching and learning of music, the parallels between learning music and language, and also in the context of the operationalisation of musical patterns (rhythm and/or tonal) as the basic condition for the development of human musical thinking. E. E. Gordon’s theory of music learning has been present in the Polish educational market for over 20 years and, due to the need for an in-depth theoretical analysis of this theory in terms of its formalities and functionality in the development of research, the category of music audiation has now become the subject of such analyses.

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