8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept
Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony
A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
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.
Abacci Music Lessons
Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.
Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
Dynamic Spectrograms of Music
Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
Essentials of Music Theory
Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
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
Online ear training site.
A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos.
Interval and Chord Ear-Training
This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
Modes and Scales in Indian Music
A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
A guide to music theory that including chords, scales, music notation and other music theory topics. Has blog format; includes links as well.
Music Theory Help Site
Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
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.
Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
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 a comprehensive annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.
Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
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.
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.
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.
Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
The Ancient Musical Modes
Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
The Method Behind the Music
A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
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.
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.
Theory on the Web
Intermediate music theory review for college students.
Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
VCU Music Theory Resources
Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
Last Updated: 2007-08-18 14:33:21