- Good Ear - http://www.good-ear.com/
- Online ear training site.
- Teoria - http://www.teoria.com/
- Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
- The Fugue - http://musik.freepage.de/cpb7079/inhalt.html
- An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
- Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - http://www.musictheory.net/
- Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
- Star Theory - http://www.musicarrangers.com/star-theory/
- Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
- Chordwizard: How Music Works - http://www.chordwizard.com/theory.html
- A concise summary of important concepts in music.
- Bimodalism - http://www.ubieta.com/bimodalism/
- A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
- WholeArts - Music Conservatory - http://www.wholarts.com/music/ed/intro.htm
- Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
- Harmony.org.uk - http://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.
- Society for Music Theory - http://www.societymusictheory.org/
- Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
- Rhythm Exercises - http://www.izap.com/~pinnacle/rhythms/
- Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.
- Harmonic Bindings - http://www.sweb.cz/vladimir_ladma/english/music/articles/ifsa97.htm
- A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
- The Basics of Reading Music - http://www.notationmachine.com/how_to_read_sheetmusic/readingmusic.htm
- Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner.
- Gems of Compositional Wisdom - http://www.cosmoedu.net/doctorfields/
- Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
- Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics - http://www.public.coe.edu/~jcotting/tcmu/
- 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.
- SchenkerGuide - http://www.schenkerguide.com/
- An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
- Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online - http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm
- Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
- Auto-Transposer - http://www.autotransposer.com/
- Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
- Dynamic Spectrograms of Music - http://nastechservices.com/spectrograms.html
- Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
- Musica Theoria - http://mywebpage.netscape.com/zentaoguy/
- Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
- Pattern Thinking in Music - http://www.seepatts.com/
- Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
- Polytempo Music Articles - http://www.greschak.com/polytempo/
- Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
- Skytopia: Music and Art Aesthetics - http://www.skytopia.com/project/rating.html
- 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.
- The Ancient Musical Modes - http://www.pathguy.com/modes.htm
- Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
- The Method Behind the Music - http://www.numbera.com/musictheory/
- A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
- The Musical Intervals Tutor - http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/
- Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
- Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony - http://www.geocities.com/yaaarrrgg/music/
- Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
- What is Music - Solving a Scientific Mystery - http://whatismusic.info/
- Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory.
- Music Theory Instruction - http://www.angelfire.com/music5/theory/
- Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
- Schoen Musical Notation - http://www.illuschoen.net/sn/sn.htm
- Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
- Solomon's Music Resources - http://solomonsmusic.net/
- Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
- eMusicTheory.com - http://www.emusictheory.com/
- Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
- 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept - http://www.jazcraft.net/8tone.html
- Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
- Simplified Music Chord Theory - http://www.rpsoft2000.com/rps_chordtheory.htm
- Explains scales and building chords from them.
- Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation - http://www.freewebs.com/gustavsphinx/
- Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
- Music Theory for the Short Attention Span - http://www.folkblues.com/theory/
- Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
- Tonality Guide - http://www.tonalityguide.com/
- Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
- Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major - http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc/i17.html
- Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
- A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony - http://www.standingstones.com/modeharm.html
- A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
- Music Acoustics - http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/
- The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
- Analysis of Masterpieces - http://www.geocities.jp/musikanalyse/eng/text/texte.html
- Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
- The Music Theory Minute - http://www.musictheoryminute.com/
- Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
- Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools - http://www.kunstderfuge.com/theory.htm
- Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
- A-Natural Atonality - http://www.greenwych.ca/atonal.htm
- Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
- Modes and Scales in Indian Music - http://chandrakantha.com/articles/scales.html
- A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
- Creativelab - http://creativelab.kiev.ua/
- Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
- Abacci Music Lessons - http://www.abacci.com/music/lessons/default.asp
- Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.
- Music Theory - http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/lennon/23/theory.html
- Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
- Essentials of Music Theory - http://musictheory.redzeppelin.org/
- Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
- VCU Music Theory Resources - http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bhammel/theory/resources/index.html
- Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
- Interval and Chord Ear-Training - http://www.auralskills.com/
- This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
- Music Worksheets - http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/worksheets.htm
- Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
- Theory on the Web - http://www.smu.edu/totw/toc.htm
- Intermediate music theory review for college students.
- Music Theory Help Site - http://www.wmich.edu/mus-history/theoryhelp/theoryhelp.html
- Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
- Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns - http://www.rhythm-patterns.narod.ru/
- Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
- Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music - http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/music/
- A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
- The Tonal Centre - http://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.
- Nuottila - http://www.nuottila.info/2007/
- Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
- The Musical Octave - http://home22.inet.tele.dk/hightower/
- 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.
- Music Theory Society of New York State - http://www.ithaca.edu/music/mtsnys/
- 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.
- Music Theory - http://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.
- Interactive Circle of Fifths - http://randscullard.com/circleoffifths/
- 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.
- Atonal Set Calculator - http://ericandchar.com/atonal/
- 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.
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