Andrea Calilhanna
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
Elder Conservatorium of Music
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
This qualitative research studies Ski-hill Graph Pedagogy to contribute to meter fundamentals pedagogy and literature. Richard Cohn (Yale) introduced the ski-hill graph into meter pedagogy in the 1990s first to analyse meter; then, as a pedagogical meter theory instrument, listeners can map a summary of all pulses and all the meters from listening to and imagining music.
Meter theory and practice from music textbooks (Calilhanna, 2018) are inherently problematic because they decentralise listening to disconnect the experience of the meter and its representation. Notation-based understandings of the meter: time signature's group of a beat in measures provide little information about the meter. This PhD is a response to the availability of contemporary meter theories (Cohn, 2020) and develops some of the work of my Master's thesis (2018).
Ski-hill Graph Pedagogy's psychoacoustic approach contributes insights into meter basics, focusing on the mathematical aspects of listening. This research project advances my prior qualitative research on teaching meters through Ski-hill graphs to provide a qualitative study of Cohn's Ski-hill meter theory applied to meter fundamentals pedagogy through the Ski-hill Graph Pedagogy approach I developed inspired by Cohn's meter theory.
The project includes a Case Study of my students and their interaction with the Ski-hill graph to learn meter fundamentals, interviews with students and music teachers, work samples, music analyses, and a literature review. It aims to situate Ski-hill Graph Pedagogy among meter pedagogy practices and theories to benefit meter fundamentals education.
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Journals
Year Citation 2020 Calilhanna, A. (2020). Ogene Bunch music analyzed through the visualization and sonification of beat-class theory with ski-hill and cyclic graphs. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(4_Supplement), 2697.
2020 Onwubiko, S. G., & Calilhanna, A. (2020). Interdisplinary Physical Music: A Blind Spot in Education on Acoustics. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(4_Supplement), 2697.
2019 Calilhanna, A., & Onwubiko, S. G. (2019). Mathematical music theory and the representation of Igbo music. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(4_Supplement), 2908.
2019 Calilhanna, A., & Onwubiko, S. G. (2019). Mathematical music theory of embodied acoustics of Ikoro music using beat-class theory. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(4_Supplement), 2999.
2019 Calilhanna, A. (2019). Teaching musical meter to school-age students through the Ski-Hill graph. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(4), 3039.
2019 Calilhanna, A., & Onwubiko, S. G. (2019). Decolonizing African music with visualizations and sonifications using beat-class theory. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(4_Supplement), 2908.
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2018 Hilton, C., Calilhanna, A., & Milne, A. J. (2018). Visualizing and sonifying mathematical music theory with software applications: Implications of computer-based models for practice and education. In Theoretical And Practical Pedagogy Of Mathematical Music Theory: Music For Mathematics And Mathematics For Music, From School To Postgraduate Levels (pp. 201-236). WORLD SCIENTIFIC.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2022 Calilhanna, A. (2022). Interdisciplinary Pedagogy of the Meter Visualising Mathematical Music Theory Through the Ski-hill Graph (Keynote). In Proceedings of the 4th Interdisciplinary and Virtual Conference on Arts in Education (CIVAE, 2022) as published in MusicoGuia Magazine (pp. 6-13). Madrid, Spain: MusicoGuia Magazine. 2019 Calilhanna, A. M., & Onwubiko, S. G. (2019). Decolonizing African music with visualizations and sonifications using beat-class theory. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics Vol. 39 (pp. 035001). ASA.
DOI2019 Milne, A. J., & Calilhanna, A. M. (2019). Teaching Music with Mathematics: A Pilot Study. In M. Montiel, F. GomezMartin, & O. A. AgustinAquino (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 11502 LNAI (pp. 383-389). Univ Politecnica Madrid, Escuela Tecnica Super Ingn Sistemas Informaticos, Madrid, SPAIN: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
DOI Scopus5 WoS22019 Onwubiko, S. G., Neilsen, T. B., & Calilhanna, A. (2019). Spectral and mathematical music theory analyses of the ikoro drum using visualizations and sonifications of beat-class theory. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics Vol. 2019-September (pp. 5543-5550).
DOI2019 Calilhanna, A. M., Onwubiko, S. G., & Kemewerigha, T. (2019). Ikorodo music analyzed through visualizations and sonifications of beat-class theory. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics Vol. 2019-September (pp. 5551-5558).
DOI Scopus12019 Calilhanna, A. M., & Onwubiko, S. G. (2019). Mathematical music theory and the representation of Igbo music. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics Vol. 39 (pp. 035002). ASA.
DOI2019 Calilhanna, A. M., Onwubiko, S. G., & Adeogun, A. O. (2019). Mathematical music theory of embodied acoustics of Ikoro music using beat-class theory. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics Vol. 39 (pp. 035006). ASA.
DOI2019 Hamilton, T. J., Doai, J., Milne, A., Saisanas, V., Calilhanna, A., Hilton, C., . . . Cohn, R. (2019). Teaching Mathematics with Music: A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, (TALE 2018) (pp. 927-931). Wollongong, NSW: IEEE.
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Conference Items
Year Citation 2019 Calilhanna, A. M. (2019). Teaching musical meter to school-age students through the ski-hill graph. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. ASA.
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MSS Music Analysis Winter School, Melbourne University. Ski-hill graph pedagogy: A Contemporary Approach to Metre Fundamentals. Accommodation grant awarded. 1-5 July.
Travel Grant to attend the Early Career Acoustician Retreat (EAR) at the 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, Acoustical Society of America, 2019.
Conference Grant (Meter Symposium), Ian Potter Foundation, 2018.
Visiting Fellow Western Sydney University, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development 2018.
Casual academic positions at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and UNSW and extensive studio and classroom teaching.
See also: https://au.linkedin.com/in/andrea-calilhanna-20391955
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