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The Gordon Institute for Music Learning includes abundant information about Music Learning Theory, how it works, and the research behind it. There is information about aptitude, sequencing, and audiation.

The Gordon Institute for Music Learning includes abundant information about Music Learning Theory, how it works, and the research behind it. There is information about aptitude, sequencing, and audiation.

The Gordon Institute for Music Learning website is a simple and easy-to-use website. You can find the schedule of upcoming seminars to attend around the United States, find a nearby chapter to join and read Gordon's Biography. The best information for music educators is under "Music Learning Theory." Here you can read about the Gordon method, audiation, musical aptitude, methodology, learning sequence, classroom activities, early childhood and instructional applications.

Andy Mullen's website is a gold mine for Music Learning Theory teachers. The Audiation Station provides video lessons to improve audiation tonally and rhythmically. He provides examples of each tonality with theoretical understanding as well as music videos. His explanations of MLT and audiation are straightforward and easy to understand.

This website provides useful resources for both students and teachers in the realm of audiation. For students, it provides helpful practice of intervals, chords, scales, and the like to train one's inner-ear. For teachers, it provides a number of pedagogical techniques and classroom exercises to try.

Collection of 428 folk songs organized by categories (origin, subject, grade level, melodic, elements, sequence of concepts, etc.) The songs follow Kodály Method sequence of introducing music concepts/elements. Excellent resource for elementary teacher.

A database of folk songs catalogued for the Kodaly methodology. Songs are searchable by elements of music, name, and more.

This is the entire American Folk Song collection. This excellent resource can be used by educators to print out folk songs to use to teach their students specific music skills such as singing, audiating, pitch, and rhythm. The website even gives activity ideas to use for each specific song.

This is a fun listening game in the form of Tetris. This game is designed to enhance the audiation skills in students by helping them identify instruments based on their unique sounds. There are three levels of difficulty for students to play. Each instrument that descends is accompanied by its innate musical sound. In the first level, students must match instruments according to their family. In the second level, students must match instruments with identical instruments. On the third level, the most challenging level, students must match instruments with identical instruments, but the icon of each instrument is blacked out. In other words, students must rely solely on their ears to hear and categorize each instrument's unique sound.

This is Jen Bailey's TPT store, and it is loaded with amazing material for Music Learning Theory teachers, as well as teachers who follow other methodologies. She has many resources for use with a projector or smart board, and other things that are printable. There are resources for assessment, audiation enhancement, movement, literature, holidays, rhythm games, notation resources, songs, recorder, ukulele, and so much more!

Helpful insight on starting your beginning band students.

Helpful insight on starting your beginning band students.

This website has many resources to learn and practice theory. there are tutorials and exercises to practice/learn as well as references and articles to read about analysis.

Teoria is a Music Theory website (similar to musictheory.com) that offers step-by-step instructions on a wide variety of music theory concepts. The quizzes are helpful in assessing students in their understanding of theory concepts and allow the teacher to edit the types of questions on the quiz, the time limits, and the opportunity to correct the answers.

This website is a great tool for students to work on their music theory and ear training skills. Students can work individually on this website to complete different exercises and review music theory concepts.

This official website for the Gordon Music Learning Theory provides many core principles and philosophies centered around this theory, professional development opportunities, and accessible links for music teachers to join an area chapter.