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

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