Meave-Avila, Alfonso

Alfonso Meave holds a Ph.D in Music (Music Technology), an M.M. (Music Technology) and B.M. in guitar performance from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He is University Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterey (ITESM) and Lecturer at the Music Faculty of the UNAM in Mexico City. His research and teaching focuses on music theory, ear training and music technology. Dr. Meave has been guest lecturer at Universidad de Occidente (UdO) in Sinaloa. In 2017 he was appointed Collaborating Professor at the State University of Campinas, Brasil (UNICAMP). He has also participated in various international conferences, for example Pedagogy into Practice 1 Lee University TN (2017), Pedagogy into Practice 2 University of California (2019), ICIAS2010 (Cancún, México), CIM08 (Thessaloniki, Greece), CIM14 (Berlin, Germany), CIM18 (Poznan, Poland). Dr. Meave is co-author of the software ModusXXI v.1.0 an atonal melody generator for ear training based on Lars Edlund's Modus Novus methodology, published by the UNAM, and Contrapuctus v.1.0 a species counterpoint analysis and generation software based on the rules of Fux, Jeppesen and Salzer. In the summer of 2015 he accomplished a post doctorate research stay at the Centre for Systematic Musicology of the University of Graz, Austria under the guidance of Richard Parncutt. Guided Dissertations: (2017) E. Gonçalves, Uma Ferramenta para Educaçao Musical de Pessoas Surda, Master Degree Dissertation, Co-guidance with Dr. Tiago Fernandes Tavares, Universidad Estadual de Campinas, Brasil. (2015) L. Fernadez, Dispositio y Elocutio en Preludios/Fantasias y Fugas del Repertorio Pianístico de Bach, Halffter, Hindemith, Liszt, Mozart, Piazzolla y Ponce, Undergraduate Disseration cum Laude, Facultad de Música, UNAM.