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- 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept - Information with exhibits and mp3 files on The 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept, a special study into the diminished, introducing the "diminished-major" and its application for mainstream jazz players, advanced improvisators, and notational composers.?
- A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony - A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
- A Model of Harmony - Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony. [Requires Flash 4+]
- A-Natural Atonality - Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
- AP Music Theory - Information about studying for and taking the advanced placement music theory exam. [PDF]
- Abacci Music Lessons - Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.
- Analysis of Masterpieces - Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
- 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.
- Auto-Transposer - Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
- Bimodalism, A New Dimension and Ethos in Harmony - Contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
- Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation - Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
- Chiasmata Modality - An experimental modality.
- CmajMusic - Bravo Notes - An interactive study of music theory and composition with the opportunity to compose. For all ages.
- Creativelab - Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
- Dynamic Spectrograms of Music - Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
- Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music - A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
- Eric's Treasure Trove of Music - A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
- Essentials of Music Theory - Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
- FolkBlues.Com - Music Theory for the Short Attention Span - Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
- Fred Lerdahl's Attack on Serialism - Discussion of Lerdahl's published article "Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems", which explores the relationship between composing and listening.
- Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools - Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
- Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier - Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Eb Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
- Fundamentals of Raga - Introduction to the Indian modal form known as "rag" or "raga".
- Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory - Includes 25 lessons on music theory, including scales, transposition, intervals, and score formats.
- Gems of Compositional Wisdom - Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
- Good Ear - Online ear training site.
- Harmonic Bindings - A paper about the unification of Janeãek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
- 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.
- 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.
- Interval and Chord Ear-Training - This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
- Introduction to Music - Lessons to learn about some of the basic concepts of western music and how it is notated on paper.
- Introduction to Reading Music -
- Java Music Theory - Suite of Java applets designed to help students of music theory improve their proficiency at basic music theory skills.
- Lunar Calendar Theory of Music - Walter Johnson demonstrates similarities between the DO, RE, MI scale of music and the ancient Athenian lunar calendar of Meton, the Fibonacci rabbit sequence, and the annual spawning cycle of coral.
- Modes and Scales in Indian Music - A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
- Mr B's Music Tutorial - By a music educator for students, a guide to self study covering music reading, piano, guitar, composers, and music history.
- Multimedia Music Theory Tutorial - A concise summary of important concepts in music.
- Music Acoustics - The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
- Music Awareness - Tools for learning music theory and harmony principles experientially. Simplified terms and notation.
- Music Theory - Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
- Music Theory 101 from ilearnmusic -- dotcom - This site offers a variety of music theory lessons for the aspiring musician. It is frequently updated and more is being added all the time. The site also offers free instrumental lessons, videos, free sheet music and guitar tablature and more....
- Music Theory Help Site - Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
- Music Theory Instruction - Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
- Music Theory Online - An interactive internet course for learning music fundamentals. Designed to be a high school AP course or freshman college level remedial theory course.
- 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.
- Music Worksheets - Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
- Musica Theoria - Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
- Musician's Archive - Music Theory Articles - Articles on arranging, chord progressions and cadence, ear training, fundamentals of music, harmony, intervals, inversions, melody construction, reading music, and scales and modes.
- Nuottila - Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
- Out of Light - Cometh Darkness - A paper on the significance of dark ambient music in relation to poststructuralist theories.
- Pattern Thinking in Music - Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
- Polytempo Music Articles - Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
- Polytonic Harmony - Allows for the creation of music in multiple, simultaneous keys as well as a practical method of voice-leading these chords.
- Practical Music Theory - Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
- Rhythm Exercises - Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm. By Nick Marshall.
- Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
- SchenkerGuide - An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
- Schoen Musical Notation - Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
- Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns - Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
- Simplified Music Chord Theory - Explains scales and building chords from them.
- 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.
- Society for Music Theory - Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
- Solomon's Music Theory and Composition Resources - Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
- Star Theory - Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
- Syntactic Structures in Music - By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos.
- 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.
- The Anatomy of a Fugue - An outline of the substantials of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue." Topics include counterpoint, subject, answer, and stretto.
- The Ancient Musical Modes: What Were They? - A different idea about the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
- The Basics of Reading Music - Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner.
- The Melodic Mind: Music Theory For The Masses - A free community based website dedicated to sharing music theory resources for any type of musician.
- The Method Behind the Music - A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
- The Music Theory Minute - Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
- The Musical Intervals Tutor - Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
- 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.
- The Society for Music Theory - Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
- 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.
- The Tonal Centre - Tonality - Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.
- Theory of Music with Ted Kirk - Resources for learning and teaching music theory to grade 5 of the Associated Board (UK).
- Theory on the Web - Intermediate music theory review for college students.
- Timing Progression Theory - Improvisational and atonal music played along four-beat base with constant tempo presented by Aratori. Includes MP3 sound.
- Tonality Guide - Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
- VCU Music Theory Resources - Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
- 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. Download available.
- WholeARTS Music Conservatory - Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
- Zeuxilogy - A new theory of musical time, developed in the past twelve years by the music theorist Andrei Pogorilowski.
- eMusicTheory.com - Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
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