Audiation for Beginning Instrumentalists: Listen, Speak, Read, Write.

The article analyses the theory that music and language share a similar learning process. Students can achieve music literacy by cultivating a practice of listening to music and speaking vocabularies. Musical vocabularies can be developed by engaging in music learning without notation. If properly practiced , these aural-skills activities will allow students to focus on musical content, such as tonality, meter, style, harmonic progression, and tonal and rhythm function. This musical information is the guide to read notation with comprehension, playing in tune in a proper tempo, improvising, and playing expressively with, and without notation.