The Theory Club Podcast

The Theory Club is a podcast centered around topics and music theory, musicology, performance, analysis, and research, from the perspective of two students. Lydia Bangura attends the University of Michigan pursuing her PhD in music theory. Emily Zwijack is an undergraduate at the Chicago College of Performing Arts pursuing a double degree in music education and violin performance. There are 4 seasons total that were produced over the course of a year featuring guests, discussing pieces of music, music education, composers, and more! The episodes can be found linked below or on Spotify, Breaker, Google podcasts, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, or Copy RSD.

Instagram: instagram.com/thetheoryclub_podcast (managed by me!)

1. Welcome to the Theory Club

2. The Dalcroze Method

3. Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 in E minor

4. The Black American Sound

5. O Salutaris Hostia by Eriks Esenvalds

6. Finding Analytical Tools that Inspire You (With Dr. Linda Berna)

7. Historically Informed Performance Practice (With Dr. David Kjar)

8. Fanfare Ritmico by Jennifer Higdon

9. Developing an Anti-Racist Performance Space (With Corinne Costell)

10. King Harold's Saga by Judith Weir

11 Music Entrepreneurship (With Dr. Malia Jade Roberson)

12. Opera Improv and Sketch Comedy (with Dr. Susan O'Brien)

13. On a Lesbian Relationship with Music by Susanne Cusick

14. "After" by Amy Beach (with Megan Lyons)

15. Libby Larsens "Blue Piece" and "Cowboy Songs"

16. The Theory Club Happy Hour

17. Teaching Music Theory at HCBU (with Richard Desinord)

18. The Sonic Gaze (with TJ Laws-Nicola)

19. The Theory Club Halloween Spectacular

20. Discovering Your Unique Compositional Process (with Sounds of the World Podcast)

21 "Modernist Music" (with Anna Rose Nelson)

22. Music Theory Pedagogy (with Dr. Brent Ferguson)

23. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite

24. "The Tyranny of the Normal" by Joseph Straus

25. Season 4 Happy Hour

26. Vitali's Chaconne

27. Beethoven's Egmont Overture

28. Edgar Meyer's Violin Concerto

29. The Beyonce Episode

30. Fugitive Music Theory (with Dr. Marc Hannaford)

31 Wallflower by Aehhart (with Amelia Wellers)

32. Moveable Do Solfege for Singers: Dan's Solfege Trainer (with Dan Inglis)

33. Teaching Music Theory (with Dr. Jennifer Snodgrass)

34. Season 5 Happy Hour