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Music Theory for the Short Attention Span
Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
www.folkblues.com
Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
www.folkblues.com
The Music Theory Minute
Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
www.musictheoryminute.com
Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
www.musictheoryminute.com
The Musical Intervals Tutor
Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
www.musicalintervalstutor.com
Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
www.musicalintervalstutor.com
Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns
Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
www.rhythm-patterns.narod.ru
Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
www.rhythm-patterns.narod.ru
Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation
Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
www.freewebs.com
Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
www.freewebs.com
Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools
Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
www.kunstderfuge.com
Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
www.kunstderfuge.com
The Ancient Musical Modes
Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
www.pathguy.com
Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
www.pathguy.com
Music Worksheets
Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
www.musicatschool.co.uk
Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
www.musicatschool.co.uk
Society for Music Theory
Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
www.societymusictheory.org
Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
www.societymusictheory.org
Music Theory
Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
www.fortunecity.com
Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
www.fortunecity.com
Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music
A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
www.ericweisstein.com
A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
www.ericweisstein.com
Dynamic Spectrograms of Music
Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
nastechservices.com
Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
nastechservices.com
A-Natural Atonality
Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
www.greenwych.ca
Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
www.greenwych.ca
eMusicTheory.com
Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
www.emusictheory.com
Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
www.emusictheory.com
Essentials of Music Theory
Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
musictheory.redzeppelin.org
Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
musictheory.redzeppelin.org
Polytempo Music Articles
Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
www.greschak.com
Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
www.greschak.com
The Method Behind the Music
A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
www.numbera.com
A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
www.numbera.com
Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online
Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
www.dolmetsch.com
Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
www.dolmetsch.com
Creativelab
Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
creativelab.kiev.ua
Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
creativelab.kiev.ua
VCU Music Theory Resources
Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
www.people.vcu.edu
Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
www.people.vcu.edu
Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
www.musictheory.net
Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
www.musictheory.net
The Fugue
An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
musik.freepage.de
An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
musik.freepage.de
Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony
Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
www.geocities.com
Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
www.geocities.com
WholeArts - Music Conservatory
Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
www.wholarts.com
Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
www.wholarts.com
Music Theory Help Site
Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
www.wmich.edu
Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
www.wmich.edu
Modes and Scales in Indian Music
A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
chandrakantha.com
A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
chandrakantha.com
Music Acoustics
The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
www.phys.unsw.edu.au
The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
www.phys.unsw.edu.au
A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony
A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
www.standingstones.com
A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
www.standingstones.com
8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept
Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
www.jazcraft.net
Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
www.jazcraft.net
Solomon's Music Resources
Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
solomonsmusic.net
Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
solomonsmusic.net
Tonality Guide
Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
www.tonalityguide.com
Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
www.tonalityguide.com
Schoen Musical Notation
Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
www.illuschoen.net
Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
www.illuschoen.net
Harmonic Bindings
A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
www.sweb.cz
A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
www.sweb.cz
Interval and Chord Ear-Training
This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
www.auralskills.com
This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
www.auralskills.com
Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major
Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
jan.ucc.nau.edu
Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
jan.ucc.nau.edu
Music Theory Instruction
Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
www.angelfire.com
Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
www.angelfire.com
Music Theory
A guide to music theory that including chords, scales, music notation and other music theory topics. Has weblog format; includes links as well.
www.musictheoryblog.blogspot.com
A guide to music theory that including chords, scales, music notation and other music theory topics. Has weblog format; includes links as well.
www.musictheoryblog.blogspot.com
Pattern Thinking in Music
Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
www.seepatts.com
Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
www.seepatts.com
Musica Theoria
Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
mywebpage.netscape.com
Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
mywebpage.netscape.com
SchenkerGuide
An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
www.schenkerguide.com
An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
www.schenkerguide.com
What is Music - Solving a Scientific Mystery
Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory.
whatismusic.info
Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory.
whatismusic.info
Harmony.org.uk
By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos.
www.harmony.org.uk
By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos.
www.harmony.org.uk
Skytopia: Music and Art Aesthetics
Author's overview of how every piece of music, every sound, and every picture can be rated on its own merits outside (as well as inside) human opinion.
www.skytopia.com
Author's overview of how every piece of music, every sound, and every picture can be rated on its own merits outside (as well as inside) human opinion.
www.skytopia.com
Atonal Set Calculator
Interactive atonal set calculator for pitch class sets and twelve-tone rows. Enter one or two sets and find normal order, prime form, Forte number, interval vector, and symmetry.
ericandchar.com
Interactive atonal set calculator for pitch class sets and twelve-tone rows. Enter one or two sets and find normal order, prime form, Forte number, interval vector, and symmetry.
ericandchar.com
The Musical Octave
Thomas Váczy Hightower's study of musical scales. Discuses the meta-physical properties of music and the creation of musical scales from an acoustic and mathematical perspective.
home22.inet.tele.dk
Thomas Váczy Hightower's study of musical scales. Discuses the meta-physical properties of music and the creation of musical scales from an acoustic and mathematical perspective.
home22.inet.tele.dk
The Tonal Centre
Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.
www.tonalcentre.org
Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.
www.tonalcentre.org
Interactive Circle of Fifths
A free music theory tool designed to help musicians interpret chord progressions, easily transpose music to a different key, compose new music, and understand key signatures, scales, and modes.
randscullard.com
A free music theory tool designed to help musicians interpret chord progressions, easily transpose music to a different key, compose new music, and understand key signatures, scales, and modes.
randscullard.com
Music Theory Society of New York State
Provides a forum for the exchange of information and to promote music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline. Site also contains membership and scholarship information as well as open calls for papers.
www.ithaca.edu
Provides a forum for the exchange of information and to promote music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline. Site also contains membership and scholarship information as well as open calls for papers.
www.ithaca.edu
Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics
A group within the Acoustical Society of America, that concerns itself with the application of science and technology to the field of music. Contains members, a list of papers, acousticians and links.
www.public.coe.edu
A group within the Acoustical Society of America, that concerns itself with the application of science and technology to the field of music. Contains members, a list of papers, acousticians and links.
www.public.coe.edu
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