Audiation=
"Audiation is to music what thought is to language" (Gordon,1999 p.42)
Audiation is a cognitive process by which the brain is able to give meaning to musical sounds.

Table 2. Types of Audiation 

Type 1	listening to	familiar or unfamiliar music
Type 2	reading	familiar or unfamiliar music
Type 3	writing	familiar or unfamiliar music from dictation
Type 4	recalling and performing	familiar music from memory
Type 5	recalling and writing	familiar music from memory
Type 6	creating and improvising	unfamiliar music while performing or in silence
Type 7	creating and improvising	unfamiliar music while reading
Type 8	creating and improvising	unfamiliar music while writing

  
Table 3. Stages of Audiation 

Stage 1	momentary retention
Stage 2	imitating and audiating tonal patterns and rhythm patterns and recognizing and identifying a tonal center and macrobeats
Stage 3	establishing objective or subjective tonality and meter
Stage 4	retaining in audiation tonal patterns and rhythm patterns that have been organized
Stage 5	recalling tonal patterns and rhythm patterns organized and audiated in other pieces of music
Stage 6	anticipating and predicting tonal patterns and rhythm patterns

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