Gordon Music Teaching



Edwin E.Gordon,Ph.D Founder and director of GIML	Xiang Gao Founder and director, GIML-China/ U of Delaware Distinguished Professor of Music/East China Normal University Zijiang Professor	Suzanne Burton Ph.DU of DelawareProfessor of Music Education/GIML-China certificate training director and co-founder




	Ms.Sary X. Liang GIML-China Education department senior consultant		Ms. Yiyue Zhang GIML-China Certification training department senior consultant

GIML Intro

Music is unique to humans. Like the other arts, music is as basic as language to human development and existence. Through music a child gains insights into herself, into others, and into life itself. Perhaps most important, she is better able to develop and sustain her imagination. Without music, life would be bleak. Because a day does not pass without a child's hearing or participating in som e music, it is to a child's advantage to understand music as thoroughly as she can. As a result, a s she becomes older she will learn to appreciate, to listen to, and to partake in music that she herself believes to be good. Because of such cultural awareness, her life will have more meaning for her. (From Gordon, Edwin E. A Music Learning Theory for Newborn and Young Children. Chicago: GIA Publications, 1990, pp. 2-3.)

Edwin E. Gordon
Edwin E. Gordon is widely known as a researcher, teacher, author, editor, and lecturer. He and his work have been portrayed nationally on the NBC Today Show, in the New York Times, and in USA Today. Through extensive research, Professor Gordon has made major contributions in the study of music aptitudes, audiation, music learning theory, tonal and rhythm patterns, and music development in infants and very young children. He is the author of six highly regarded music aptitude tests, as well as numerous books, articles, and research monographs.
Before becoming committed to research in the psychology of music, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in string bass performance from the Eastman School of Music. He played string bass with the Gene Krupa band before going on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1958.
From 1979 to 1997 Professor Gordon was Carl E. Seashore Professor of Research in Music Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he received the school's Lindback and Great Teacher Awards. Prior to that he was Professor of Music at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at the University of Iowa.
In recent years Professor Gordon has been exploring music development with infants from one month t o 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: Ski ll, 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 Psycho logy 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 work shops and seminars.


		Dr. Suzanne Burton Dr. Suzanne L. Burtonis Professor of Music Education, Director of Graduate Studies, and Coordinator of Music Education at the University of Delaware.Burton specializes in music teacher preparation in authentic contexts, early childhood and K-12 general music, and is on the certification faculty of the Gordon Institute for Music Learning.Her research interests are music acquisition and the development of music literacy, school-university partnerships, international partnerships, and effective professional development. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Music Teacher Education and Visions of Research in Music Education, is widely published in professional journals, and has contributed book chapters to Applications of Music Learning Theory, Collaborative Action for Change: Selected Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium on Music Teacher Education and the international compilation, Professional Knowledge in Music Teacher Education. She is lead editor and contributor to Learning from Young Children: Research in Early Childhood Musicbook, and editor and contributor for the book Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. Dr. Burton is a recipient of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra's Jessie Ball DuPont Educator Award, and is the immediate past chair of the NAfME Collegiate Council and the NAfME Early Childhood Special Research Interest Group. She is chair of the Community Engagement Committee for the College Music Society.In addition to her work at the collegiate level, Burton also advises the UD Community Music School Early Childhood Music for Young Minds program and teaches K-8 general music in a local school.


		Xiang Gao Recognized as one of the world's most successful performing artists of his generation from the People's Republic of China, the New York Times cites Xiang Gao (AKS X Gao) as " a rare and soulful virtuoso." His musical integrity and virtuoso technique have gained accolades from audiences and reviewers around the world. Highlights of the recent season's engagements the 2011 world premier of Kristin Kuster’s “Two Jades” for solo violin and symphony band in Disney Hall, Los Angeles and the National Center for Performing Arts, Beijing, China; solo performances with the Detroit Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic, the Gothenburg Symphony-National Orchestra of Sweden, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic of Russia, the Estonia National Symphony and others. Mr. Gao frequently appears atCarnegie Hall, the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, the Shanghai Grand Theatre, the Aspen Music tent, the Smetana Hall, the "Prague Spring" International Music Festival, the Singapore International Music Festival, the David Oistrakh International Music Festival, the Spoleto Music Festival, and the Tallinn International Festival. As a multifaceted musician and singer songwriter, Mr. Gao composes, arranges and performs in the styles of Jazz, funk, bluegrass, Asian folk, pop and latin American music. The 40th anniversary of Earth Day’s theme song “Sleep now, O Earth” composed by Xiang Gao was successfully premiered in Delaware in April of 2010. As a member of the "China Magpie" ensemble established by Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, and the “6ixwire Project”, a crossover duet he and Erhu soloist Cathy Yang formed in 2009, Xiang is frequently featured on CCTV, China's leading TV station, performing live concerts for more than one billion TV viewers worldwide. Both crossover ensembles combine multiple styles, from Chinese folk to western classical and rock music. With his strong interest in theater and Asian traditional music, Xiang Gao has solo performed in the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway. He created the acclaimed Butterfly Lovers Multimedia Violin Concerto, which was recently awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. Anorchestral debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra took place in 2007. Xiang Gao is also the creator and producer of the "iMusic" productions, which successfully humanizes classical music in multimedia concerts that brings the audience of all ages and performers together with delightful artistic elements and special effects. His current projects include producing and directing “Encounters- the Qing and the West” – a theatrical concert he created to transport the audience on a musical journey of interactions between the Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and the West promoting cultural exchange and understanding. Mr. Gao is the first and only Chinese performer to earn a chaired professorship in the U.S., he is the Trustees Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Delaware, the ZiJiang Professor of Music at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, and the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music at the FuJian Normal University in FuZhou, China. In 2007, the Stradivari Society in Chicago selected Mr. Gao to be a recipient of world famous Stradivarius violins for his international solo concerts.


		Ms.Sary X. Liang Liang Xiaojuan(Sary), Master of Arts, majored in Music Education and learned from Professor Xia Jiaxing from 2006 to 2009 in China Concervatory. Now Sary works in Beijing Contemprory Music Academy(BCMA) as vice director of the dean's office, teaches music didactics, studies in music didactics, the philosophy of music education, music education of early childhood. Sary attent the 6th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Reaserch and ISME Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2007, and submitted the paper Research on the Comparison of the Analects of Confucius with the Music Curriculum Standard in July,2008. On November 24th, Sary attent The 8th National Symposium of Musical Aesthetics, The 3rd National Symposium of Music Psycology, and submitted two papers: the influence of Music Thoughts of Confuciusim on the Culture of Contemprory Music, the meaning in Music Psyhcology and Music Pedagogy of Music Aptitude amd ,Music Achievement measurement of Edwin E Gordon. Sary is translating Learning Sequences in Music----A Contemprory Music Learning Theory.


		Ms. Yiyue Zhang Yiyue Zhang is a Ph.D. student in Music Education at Temple University. She earnedboth Bachelors and Masters in Music Education from Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China, and Master's degree in Music Education from Temple University. While holding Early Childhood Music Mastership Certification from The Gordon Institute for Music Learning, she is a TA for Teaching General Music to Inclusive Population and Teaching Choral Music to Inclusive Population at Temple University. She is also teaching Inclusive Vocal Development, School Choral Ensembles as well as assisting with Introduction to Teaching Students with Special Needs at Temple. During the close to 20 years of piano training and education, she has also been learning saxophone, cello, vocal music and percussion instrument of Chinese ethnic nationalities. In addition to piano solo, Ms. Zhang has rich experiences as a piano accompanist for vocal and chorus performances.Ms. Zhang is currently the piano accompanist of Chinese Musical Voices located at Cherry Hill, NJ as well as the assistant conductor of Guanghua Chorus located at Blue Bell, PA.

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