Theory

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Abacci Music Lessons :

- Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.
Analysis of Masterpieces :

- Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
A-Natural Atonality :

- Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
The Ancient Musical Modes :

- Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
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.
The Basics of Reading Music :

- Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner.
A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony :

- A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
Bimodalism :

- A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation :

- Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
Chordwizard: How Music Works :

- A concise summary of important concepts in music.
Creativelab :

- Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online :

- Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
Dynamic Spectrograms of Music :

- Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
eMusicTheory.com :

- Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
Eric Weisstein'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.
The Fugue :

- An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
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
Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools :

- Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
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 Janecek'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.
The Method Behind the Music :

- A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
Modes and Scales in Indian Music :

- A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
Music Acoustics :

- The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
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.
Music Theory :

- Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
Music Theory for the Short Attention Span :

- Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
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.
The Music Theory Minute :

- Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
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.
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.
Nuottila :

- Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
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.
Rhythm Exercises :

- Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.
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 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.
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.
Teoria :

- Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
Theory on the Web :

- Intermediate music theory review for college students.
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.
Tonality Guide :

- Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept :

- Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
VCU Music Theory Resources :

- Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony :

- Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
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.
WholeArts - Music Conservatory :

- Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.