Alexandrea Jonker

Conference Presentations:

“Peer-led Dictation in the Aural Skills Curriculum”

• Pedagogy into Practice (Norman OK, 2024)

“Consonance, Dissonance, and Gender: A Queer-Theoretical Approach to Johanna Beyer’s Clarinet Suites (1932)”

• Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting (Denver CO, 2023)

“Notation-Free Dictation: A Case Study in ‘Blind Hearing’”

• Pedagogy into Practice (East Lansing MI, 2022)

“Melodic Transformations in Johanna Beyer’s Clarinet Suites (1932)

• Music Theory Midwest (Lawrence KS, 2022)
• Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting (New Orleans LA, 2022)

“Keeping the ‘Ear’ in ‘Ear Training’: Incorporating ‘Blind Hearing’ for Improved Aural Skills Pedagogy”

• Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory Regional Conference (Online, 2021)
• Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (Online, 2021)
• Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting (Online, 2021)

“Gamifying the Music Theory Curriculum”

• College Music Society Great Lakes Regional Conference (Online, 2021)
• College Music Society International Conference (Canceled due to COVID, 2021) 
• The Canadian University Music Society Annual Conference (Online, 2021)

"'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. 2020. “Error Detection in the Undergraduate Aural Skills Curriculum.” In The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy. Leigh VanHandel (ed). New York: Routledge Publishing Inc. 

Jonker, Alexandrea. 2018. “Human Perception of Melodic Similarity in Theme and Variation Pieces.” Proceedings of ICMPC-ESCOM 15 (Montreal, Canada). 227-232.

 

Workshop Participation:

Liberatory Praxis in Music Education (2022-2023 at McGill University)

Inclusive Pedagogies in Music Education (2023 at McGill University)

"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:

Dorothy Payne Award for Best Student Paper (MTSMA, 2021)

Best Student Paper Award (RMSMT, 2021)

Innovative Learning and Teaching Award in Music (McGill University, 2020, 2021)

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

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

Guest Lectures:

McGill University (2023), Bradley University (2019)