The Author

Andrea M. Calilhanna, MMus; GradDipT (Mus); DipMus; LMusA; AMusA; MMTA; FCSME; MAAS; PhD Candidate, the University of Adelaide. Andrea teaches a three-step psychoacoustic approach inspired by the music theories of Richard Cohn (Yale). Her primary research interest is the pedagogy of the fundamentals of meter and rhythm concerning the Ski-hill graph. She has taught music since 1991 to today in both classroom and music studio settings and her students are beginners ages five years to undergraduate students. Andrea is a member of several professional organisations and presents papers at conferences locally, interstate and overseas and has several publications.