Alexandrea Jonker

Alexandrea Jonker

In the music theory Master's program at MSU: 2016 to 2018

Before MSU: B.M. in Music Theory, Wilfrid Laurier University

Now: in the Ph.D. program in music theory at McGill University

Conference Presentations:

"'Dissonation' of Tonal Materials in Vivian Fine's Ultra-Modernist Compositions."

  • Music Theory Midwest (virtual conference, 2020)
  • Society for Music Theory (forthcoming, 2020)

"The Expectancy/Infinity Trope in 'Molasses' by Hiatus Kaiyote."

  • McGill Graduate Student Symposium (Montreal, QC, 2019)
  • University of Toronto Graduate Student Conference (Toronto, ON, 2019)
  • New England Conference of Music Theorists (Montreal, QC, 2019)

"Internal Conflict in Vivian Fine's 'A Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring' from Four Songs."

  • International Muic by Women Festival (Columbus, MI, 2019)

"An Argument for Error Detection: Why and How It Should be Taught in the Undergraduate Aural Skills Curriculum."

  • THEMUS Temple University Graduate Student Symposium on Pedagogy (Philadelphia, PA, 2018)
  • College Music Society – Great Lakes Regional Conference (Westerville, OH, 2018)
  • University of Arizona Graduate Student Music Conference (Tucson, AZ, 2018)

"The Ego and the Id: A Psychoanalysis of Schubert's String Quartet in C Major, D. 956, Scherzo and Trio."

  • THEMUS Temple University Graduate Student Symposium on Pedagogy (Philadelphia, PA, 2018)
  • Western University Graduate Student Symposium on Music (London, ON, 2018)

"Human Perception of Melodic Similarity in Theme and Variation Pieces."

  • International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Montreal, QC, 2018)

Publications:

Jonker, Alexandrea. 2019. "Error Detection in the Undergraduate Aural Skills Curriculum." In The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, ed. Leigh VanHandel. Routledge. 

Jonker, Alexandrea. 2018. "Human Perception of Melodic Similarity in Theme and Variation Pieces." Proceedings of ICMPC–ESCOM 15 (Montreal, Canada). 227–32.

Workshop Participation:

"Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance: Contexts and Experiments," with Daphne Leong, Society for Music Theory National Conference (Columbus, OH, 2019)

"Code Shifting, Chromaticism, and Modality," with Dmitri Tymoskzo, Society for Music Theory National Conference (San Antonio, TX, 2018)

Workshop with Suzannah Clark, University of Arizona Graduate Student Music Conference (Tucson, AZ, 2018)

"The Craft of Musical Analysis," with Frank Samarotto, Society for Music Theory National Conference (Arlington, VA, 2017)

Awards:

Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (2020)

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral) (2020)