Luanne Fose, Ph.D. - Bio
Luanne
Fose is an Instructional Designer for the Center
for Teaching and Learning at California Polytechnic State University
in San Luis Obispo. Her position at Cal Poly is primarily focused upon
conducting faculty workshops on technological applications and pedagogy,
providing one-on-one faculty consultation in Blackboard and other software
applications, and developing courseware that assists faculty in their
on-campus and/or online courses. Luanne, a Macintosh aficionado, is the
primary trainer for all faculty Macintosh classes at Cal Poly, offering
courses in Tiger OS X, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, iDVD, Automator, Keynote,
PowerPoint, and Podcasting, and Educational Uses of the iPod.
Before assuming her position at Cal Poly, Luanne was a professor of music theory and music technology in the university classroom for over twelve years with a strong emphasis on music technology and instructional pedagogy. She often serves as a MIDI music consultant for a wide variety of institutions -- both public and private -- and has been very active as a clinician in MIDI and educational technology.
Luanne holds a Doctor of Philosophy in music theory/musicology from
the University of North Texas, a Masters of Music in music theory/trombone
from Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Point Loma Nazarene
University with a double major in music theory/music education. Her groundbreaking
ear training software, Basic Ear Training Skills (a 10-disk
package for aural drill in intervals, chords, rhythmic, melodic, and
harmonic dictation), which accompanies the textbook by Dr. Robert Ottman,
was published by Prentice-Hall in the early 1990's. She has also written
several unpublished software projects that are implemented in MIDI music
labs at Indiana University, University of North Texas, Point Loma Nazarene
University, and the University of San Diego. Her most recent software
project, Melody
a Day, available to students free-of-cost on the web, is being currently
being used by high school and college music teachers nationwide.
Besides her interests in music technology, Luanne is also a Latin scholar.
While studying Medieval/Renaissance music under the UNT music faculty,
she studied Latin privately under Professor Barbara Huggins. Those studies
resulted in her crowning Latin achievement of her completed dissertation
-- the first Latin-English translation and commentary of the entire Renaissance
music treatise, Musica Practica, of Bartolomeo Ramos de Pareia.
Luanne has taught on the music faculty of Indiana
University, the University of
North Texas, Point Loma
Nazarene University, the University
of San Diego, and San Diego State
University. Actively involved in the church since childhood, Luanne
has served in a variety of capacities (e.g., organist, choir director,
worship band director, resident composer, handbell director, pianist,
and MIDI specialist) on the music staff of both the Mission
Hills United Methodist Church and the Pacific
Beach United Methodist Church in San Diego, California. Currently,
Luanne is the organist, pianist, and contemporary worship band director
of the Atascadero United Church
of Christ as well as their resident webmaster. She continues to remain
active as a musician in both San Diego and San Luis Obispo area. She
is an avid lover of jazz (especially Dixieland) and performed frequently
on trombone with the Tin Roof Hot Cats Dixieland Band of San Diego, California.
Her newest instrument passion is playing soprano saxophone but she has
formally studied piano, harpischord, trombone, guitar, electric bass,
and cello.
Luanne is also active as a composer. Her children's musicals, The
Christmas Rose and The Mystery Child have both been premiered
by the Pacific Beach United Methodist Church. The PBUMC Voices of Praise
Choir have performed many of her compositions and arrangements and commissioned
an adult Christmas musical drama entitled Joseph: The Earthly Father,
which examines the Christmas nativity from Joseph's point of view. Other
compositions include music commissioned for the California Space
Institute and a commissioned piano arrangement of Great is Thy
Faithfulness on Dr. Kay Etheridge's CD, A Return to Hymns.
Her current composition project is Trombone Praise, a book of
trombone & piano duet arrangements for church offertories.
A pioneer in spirit, Luanne was one of the first instructors at San Diego
State University to develop and teach computer music classes entirely
online with HTML and database programming (before the days of Blackboard)
and authored an online textbook Finale Tutorials for the Professional
Musician (both for Finale 98 and Finale 2000). For a short time, Luanne
also worked as senior consultant/developer for a CollegeUnits.com, assisting
professors in the development of university courses on the World Wide
Web for a variety of disciplines. Currently, she is especially interested
in assisting musicians in promoting themselves on the web and developing
a music course in Web Design for Musicians.
Luanne utilizes a variety of multimedia applications to assist faculty
in finding ways to teach more effectively and continues to compose commissioned
original works and arrangements for campus projects, churches, web sites,
and solo musical artists. She serves on several campus committees in
order to keep a pulse on the academic technological and pedagogical needs
of the faculty and administration at Cal Poly.