Dr. Edwin E. Gordon
About Our Keynote Speaker
Edwin E. Gordon is known throughout the world as a preeminent researcher,teacher,author,editor,and lecturer in the field of music education. Since 1997 he has been Distinguished Professor in Residence at the University of South Carolina,following his retirement as the Carl E. Seashore Professor of Research in Music Education at Temple University in Philadelphia.
In addition to advising Ph.D. candidates in music education,Dr. Gordon has devoted many years to teaching music to preschool children. Through extensive research,Professor Gordon has made major contributions to the study of music aptitudes,stages and types of audiation,music learning theory,and rhythm in movement and music,to name just a few areas.
Before devoting his life to the field of music education,he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in string bass performance from the Eastman School of Music and played string bass with the Gene Krupa band. He want on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1958.
Professor Gordon and his work have been portrayed nationally and internationally on the NBC Today Show,in the New York Times,in USA Today,and in a variety of European and Asian publications.
He lives with his wife Carol in Columbia,South Carolina.
Above biographical information from GIA Publications Website.
Gordon’s Early Childhood Contributions
The following is from the GIML Website (Gordon Institute of Music Learning).
In recent years Professor Gordon has been exploring music development with infants from one month to eighteen months old and refining those skills in children from eighteen months to age three. His current research interests focus on investigating the levels of Music Learning Theory,stages and types of audiation,developmental and stabilized music aptitudes,and rhythm in movement and music.
Music Learning Theory is explained in detail in Professor Gordon’s Learning Sequences in Music:Skill,Content,and Patterns. The musical development of young children is described in A Music Learning Theory for Newborn and Young Children. He also authored,Introduction to Research and the Psychology of Music and his most recent book,Preparatory Audiation,Audiation,and Music Learning Theory:A Handbook of a Comprehensive Music Learning Sequence,is now available from G.I.A. Publications.
Professor Gordon’s professional materials are now housed in the Edwin E. Gordon Archive at the University of South Carolina/Columbia. The archive houses all of Gordon’s publications,journals,recordings,manuscripts,dissertations he supervised,and video and audio cassette tapes of various workshops and seminars.
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