Joy Ollen

Joy Ollen

Joy Ollen began teaching at Douglas College in 1996 and became head
of the Aural Skills Division in 1998. She holds three degrees in
music theory: a Ph.D from the Ohio State University and a Master of
Arts and Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British
Columbia. Her doctoral work was in the field of music perception and
cognition, with a minor in Research Methodology. Joy's dissertation
examined the validity of various indicators of musical sophistication
used by music researchers and is available for download at:
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1161705351

Joy Ollen studied piano and accompanying with Jane Hayes, Ronald
Turini and Damjana Bratuz (University of Western Ontario) and with
Robert Rogers (University of British Columbia).

Joy Ollen has published and presented on topics including music
theory pedagogy, musical form and connections between speech and
music. Her interest in aural skills pedagogy has led to a study of
selected evaluative methods and experimentation with the movement-
based teaching approaches of Jaques-Dalcroze.

She is a member of the Society for Music Theory, the College Music
Society and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.