Theory Music

Sites offering music theory, both specific and general, are listed here. Music Theory is not Musicology. Musicology seeks answers questions for Who, What, Where, When and Why questions. Music Theory seeks answers for How.

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• Music Theory for the Short Attention Span - Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
  
• Music Acoustics - The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
  
• The Musical Intervals Tutor - Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
  
• The Ancient Musical Modes - Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
  
• Harmonic Bindings - A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
  
• A-Natural Atonality - Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
  
• SchenkerGuide - An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
  
• 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.
  
• Essentials of Music Theory - Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
  
• 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.
  
• Good Ear - Online ear training site.
  
• 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
  
• Polytempo Music Articles - Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
  
• WholeArts - Music Conservatory - Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
  
• Dynamic Spectrograms of Music - Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
  
• 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.
  
• Solomon's Music Resources - Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
  
• 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.
  
• Bimodalism - A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
  
• Creativelab - Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
  
• 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.
  
• Analysis of Masterpieces - Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
  
• 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.
  
• Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony - Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
  
• Auto-Transposer - Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
  
• Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
  
• Pattern Thinking in Music - Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
  
• Interval and Chord Ear-Training - This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
  
• Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music - A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept - Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
  
• Tonality Guide - Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
  
• Society for Music Theory - Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
  
• Modes and Scales in Indian Music - A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
  
• 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.
  
• Chordwizard: How Music Works - A concise summary of important concepts in music.
  
• 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.
  
• Gems of Compositional Wisdom - Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
  
• eMusicTheory.com - Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
  
• Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online - Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
  
• Star Theory - Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
  
• Music Worksheets - Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
  
• Teoria - Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
  
• Theory on the Web - Intermediate music theory review for college students.
  
• Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools - Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
  
• Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns - Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
  
• Schoen Musical Notation - Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
  
• The Fugue - An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
  
• Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation - Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
  
• Nuottila - Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
  
• The Music Theory Minute - Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
  
• VCU Music Theory Resources - Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
  
• A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony - A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
  
• 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.
  
  

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