<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Roger:<div><br></div><div>In an article in the Fall 2011 edition of <i>Audea</i>, the journal put out by GIML (Gordon Institute for Music Learning), three Music Learning Theory experts report the results of administering the AMMA to students at several different conservatories.</div><div><br></div><div>best wishes,</div><div>Gordon</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Aug 5, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Roger Graybill wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear smt-list:<br><br>I'm curious to know whether anyone on the list is familiar with an aptitude<br>test, designed by Edwin Gordon, that goes by the name "Advanced Measures of<br>Music Audiation" (AMMA). Gordon is in the field of music education, and<br>over the last several decades he's developed a music learning theory that<br>(among other things) trains students in audiation skills.<br><br>Gordon contrasts musical aptitude with achievement (the former does not<br>depend on notational skills) and he believes that that students who are not<br>high achievers can actually possess a high aptitude level. The aptitude<br>test that he has designed does not include any notation, and it's intended<br>to work for college students as well as secondary students and older adults.<br><br>Have any of us on the list administered AMMA to college music majors, and if<br>yes, how did it work out?<br><br>Please feel free to respond to me privately if you prefer.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Roger Graybill<br><br>Faculty, Music Theory Department<br>New England Conservatory<br><a href="mailto:roger.graybill@necmusic.edu">roger.graybill@necmusic.edu</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br>Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>