This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube podcast trailer titled "Official Trailer ✅: Season 3 Episode 13 feat. Krista Jadro -- Music Learning Theory Specialist" (created 2023-02-22). The excerpt is from The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song and features host Yukimi Song introducing guest Krista Jadro (music learning theory and audiation specialist) with Celiana Sliashka joining as guest co‑host. The participants discuss Music Learning Theory and the concept of audiation, and the trailer announces Part 1 of the episode will be released on Tuesday, February 28 at 8 PM Eastern Time. The clip is an English-language promotional/transcript excerpt about music education topics.
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For Season 3, Episode 13 of The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song with Yukimi Song, I invited Krista Yadrow, music learning theory and audiation-based teaching specialist and founder of the Music Learning Academy. Since music learning theory was completely new territory for me, so I invited Celiana Sliashka, pianist educator and music learning theory specialist, as a guest co-host. Here is what Krista says about Music Learning Theory and Audiation.
What is Music Learning Theory?
So Music Learning Theory was developed by Dr. Edwin E. Gordon. He was a researcher, an author, a teacher, an overall wonderful person. I'm so honored that I got to meet him and learn from him before he passed in 2015. And music learning theory is an explanation of how we learn when we learn music. And through a carefully sequenced approach, students learn how to audiate—that is, they learn how to listen to, perform, create, improvise, read, and write with music understanding.
And let's talk about audiation. So there are several terminologies that I encounter as I was browsing through websites and, you know, learning a little bit about music learning theory as much as I could.
Well, let me first tell you what it's not, because I feel like audiation really has become a buzzword in recent years, and I've seen it defined as hearing music in our heads, like an inner hearing, aural imagery or aural perception. But really there's, there's so much more to it. That's kind of the tip of the iceberg when you use those words. Audiation is the cognitive process that brings understanding to music that we listen to, perform, create, read, and write, just like we use thought to bring understanding to words that we listen to.
When you first encounter music learning theory, Krista, What did you think was missing from the traditional way of teaching and learning music? Yeah, that's a good question.
So I think the sound before sight, and not only the sound before sight, because there are methods out there that don't introduce reading right away, and there are teachers that see the value of not introducing reading right away, but really the sequenced sound before sight, right, that is purposeful and research-based.
And Part 1 of this special episode with Krista Yadrow on music learning theory, Audiation-Based Music Learning, will be released on Tuesday, February 28th at 8 PM Eastern Time on The Piano Pod's YouTube channel and on your favorite podcasting platform. Subscribe to my YouTube channel and my podcast now to get the notification.
