audiation

Etymology
Presumably, coined by American music researcher and educator Edwin E. Gordon (1927–2015), possibly in Learning Sequence and Patterns in Music (1976).

Noun

 * 1)  The comprehension and internal realization of music by an individual in the absence of any physical sound.

Translations

 * French: audiation
 * Galician: audiación
 * Portuguese: audiação
 * Spanish: audiación