Archive for October, 2009
Kids Music - Audiation and Learning
October 20th, 2009 | 
Author: An important building block for learning music skills and concepts is audiation. You may be familiar with the term inner hearing. The term audiation (inner hearing of music or silently hearing music) was coined by music education researcher Edwin E. Gordon.
Audiation is Gordon’s term for hearing music in the mind with understanding. It is the process of thinking music and comprehending music in the mind. Gordon describes audiation as the foundation of musicianship.
Audiation is the process of mentally hearing and comprehending music, even when no physical sound is present. It is a cognitive process by which the brain gives meaning to musical sounds. In essence, audiation of music is analogous to thinking in a language, as said by Edwin E. Gordon
Mary Ellen Pinzino states that audiation is a way of knowing in melody and rhythm. It is a unique human capacity outside the realm of words. To audiate is to “think” music, but in melody and rhythm rather than in words. Audiation is another way of knowing. Audiation is the musical imagination. It is the man-made music of the mind. It is the sound fantasy that provides the framework for understanding the music we listen to, the music we perform, and the music we read and write.
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Play games and watch South Park at Comedy Central
Everyone loves to play games. Some kids enjoy playing games like chess, checkers and some like to play action games. Most of the kids spend their time playing games on computer. Usually you won’t be able to find some cool games with good graphics over the internet which can give you full entertainment. The same case is with different TV shows like South Park. There is no need to search for any website when comedy central is the ultimate website which contains everything you need.
Comedy Central contains a large collection of cool games. The games are divided into different Read the rest of this entry »