埃德温·戈登在学术上的终身追求,就是创建音乐学习理论。他的音乐学习理论的根基,与人类语言学习相仿。人类的语言模仿学习,是以聆听大量的言语及其内化为基础而开始的。在戈登的音乐学习理论中,最为重要的是培养听觉的文化,而不是视觉的文化。这是因为,人的音乐素养的根基,毕竟要建立在敏锐的听觉感知和理解之上。 Edwin Gordon’s academic lifelong pursuit is to create music learning theory. The fundamentals of his musical learning theory are similar to human language learning. Human language imitation learning begins by listening to a large number of words and their internalization. In Gordon’s theory of music learning, the most important is to develop the culture of hearing, not visual culture. This is because, people’s musical literacy foundation, after all, to be based on the keen sense of hearing and understanding.