Meter as Entrainment & Dept. News

Entrainment occurs when some aspect of biological activity synchronizes with regularly recurring events. Here are fireflies in Thailand synchronizing to computer-controlled LEDs. Here are metronomes on a floating system synchronizing…

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Spotlight Team & Inclusion

The College of Music Advisory Board consists of over thirty community members, all deeply engaged with music. They advocate for the College of Music locally, statewide, and nationally. Several members…

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Musical Time & Faculty News

Watch Yonatan Malin’s CU on the Weekend presentation, “Reflections on Musical Time,” for a glimpse of how time in music from Franz Schubert, Bob Dylan, Hamilton, and others connects to poetry,…

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Undergraduate Research & Alumni News

The five undergraduate students in the Linking Music Theory and Practice project presented their work to an enthusiastic audience last spring. This issue of Think Theory! publishes their lecture-recitals with multimedia elements. Links below…

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Reaching Out

Music theory at CU reaches across boundaries in multiple ways. Here are five: JAZZ, DADA, AND THE MUSIC OF PARIS AFTER WORLD WAR I CU on the Weekend Keith Waters…

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Explorations & Faculty News

WE INVITE YOU!  Explorations in Analysis and Performance: Berio, Childs, Ravel, Weber, and Jazz Composition As the outcome of a collaboration between the CU theory department and five performance studios,…

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Bernstein at 100 & Student News

This fall, as part of the worldwide Bernstein at 100 celebration, the theory department presented “Bernstein as Teacher: Exploring the Language of Music,” another installment in our Musical Conversations series in…

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Crossword & Student News

We present our inaugural THINK THEORY! crossword. Intriguing facts from the world of music theory, for both musicians and non-musicians! If you have read our previous THINK THEORY! issues, you…

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