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- 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.
- 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.
- Chiasmata Modality - An experimental modality.
- CmajMusic - Bravo Notes - An interactive study of music theory and composition with the opportunity to compose. For all ages.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - Lessons to learn about some of the basic concepts of western music and how it is notated on paper.
- Java Music Theory - Suite of Java applets designed to help students of music theory improve their proficiency at basic music theory skills.
- 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.
- 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.
- Musica Theoria - Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
- Music Awareness - Tools for learning music theory and harmony principles experientially. Simplified terms and notation.
- 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.
- 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 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 Online - Offering a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
- 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.
- 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 Musical Intervals Tutor - Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
- Theory of Music with Ted Kirk - Resources for learning and teaching music theory to grade 5 of the Associated Board (UK).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.?
- 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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