Modes and Modulations in Klezmer Music & Colloquia Invitation
Musical styles are like languages: within a given style there are certain probabilities for one note or harmony to follow…
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Crossword & Department News
We present our second THINK THEORY! crossword. Answers come from recent issues, so diligent readers will recall these music theory-related…
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HYPERMETER & STUDENT NEWS
After the Bridge…the Chorus? Music theory treats meter, or the measurement of time, hierarchically: elements can either be divided into…
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Geometric Music Theory and Department Updates
Welcome to New Faculty Leah Frederick joined the department as Assistant Professor this fall, and Karin Buer was promoted to Assistant Teaching…
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Jazz Improvisation & Department News
Bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker is one of the central architects of modern jazz. His improvisations provided a blueprint for virtually…
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CU ON THE WEEKEND & THEORY CERTIFICATE STUDENTS
CU ON THE WEEKEND From Aretha Franklin to Paul Simon to the Sex Pistols, popular performers and bands from the…
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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…
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Video in Music Theory & Faculty News
Video in Music Theory Three vignettes: 1. the speech-to-song illusion, made famous by Diana Deutsch in 2011 (Elizabeth Margulis, “Repetition…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Student Gallery & Alumni News
With this issue of THINK THEORY! we inaugurate a gallery in which we feature projects from students in our classes.…
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Uniqueness of the major scale & Our Department
What is unique about the major scale? The scales that composers use are a bit like alphabets: they constrain possible…
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Whistle a Happy Tune, Alumni Spotlight, & Faculty News
Whistle a Happy Tune, by Philip Chang The notion that music can influence our emotions is at least as old…
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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!…
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Phase Shifting & Cross-Disciplinary Work
Phase Shifting, by Daphne Leong Did you know that the phase-shifting (gradual shifting of a pattern against itself) in Steve…
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I Got Rhythm & Research and Creative Work
Listen to “I Got Rhythm.” When George Gershwin wrote the music to “I Got Rhythm” for the 1930 musical Girl…
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Play ball! & Alumni news
For years, I have played around with “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” in my mind, listening to the…
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What is Music Theory & Teaching
Music is an art. Music is a language. Music is therapy. Music is a clinical tool. Music is a weapon. Music is…
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Introduction to Triads & Serving Community
When we talk about the music of composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, or Brahms, or of the Beatles or Scott…
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