| 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 Model of Harmony: Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony. [Requires Flash 4+] | |
| A-Natural Atonality: Debunks atonality as unnatural and tonality as normal. | |
| AP Music Theory: Information about studying for and taking the advanced placement music theory exam. | |
| 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. | |
| Dynamic Spectrograms of Music: Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music. | |
| Elements of Music Notation: Basic introduction to reading music. Learn note names, clefs, staff, signs. Worksheets and answer keys included. | |
| eMusicTheory.com: Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills. | |
| Eric's Treasure Trove of Music: A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Introduction to Music: Lessons to learn about some of the basic concepts of western music and how it is notated on paper. | |
| 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 Awareness: Tools for learning music theory and harmony principles experientially. Simplified terms and notation. | |
| Music Theory Instruction: Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales. | |
| Music Theory Online: Offering a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing. | |
| Musica Theoria: Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history. | |
| 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 a comprehensive 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 Method Behind the Music: A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting. | |
| The Musical Intervals Tutor: Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing. | |
| The Society for Music Theory: Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal. | |
| 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). | |
| Timing Progression Theory: Improvisational and atonal music played along four-beat base with constant tempo presented by Aratori. Includes MP3 sound. | |
| 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. |
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