Knowledge: theory
See Also:
Links
- Good Ear
http://www.good-ear.com/ - Online ear training site.
- Teoria
http://www.teoria.com/ - Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
- The Fugue
http://musik.freepage.de/cpb7079/inhalt.html - An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
- Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
http://www.musictheory.net/ - Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
- Star Theory
http://www.musicarrangers.com/star-theory/ - Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
- Chordwizard: How Music Works
http://www.chordwizard.com/theory.html - A concise summary of important concepts in music.
- Bimodalism
http://www.ubieta.com/bimodalism/ - A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
- WholeArts - Music Conservatory
http://www.wholarts.com/music/ed/intro.htm - Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
- Harmony.org.uk
http://www.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.
- Society for Music Theory
http://www.societymusictheory.org/ - Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
- Rhythm Exercises
http://www.izap.com/~pinnacle/rhythms/ - Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.
- Harmonic Bindings
http://www.sweb.cz/vladimir_ladma/english/music/articles/ifsa97.htm - A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
- The Basics of Reading Music
http://www.notationmachine.com/how_to_read_sheetmusic/readingmusic.htm - Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner.
- Gems of Compositional Wisdom
http://www.cosmoedu.net/DoctorFields/ - Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
- Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics
http://www.public.coe.edu/~jcotting/tcmu/ - 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.
- SchenkerGuide
http://www.schenkerguide.com/ - An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
- Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online
http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm - Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
- Auto-Transposer
http://www.autotransposer.com/ - Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
- Dynamic Spectrograms of Music
http://nastechservices.com/Spectrograms.html - Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
- Musica Theoria
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/zentaoguy/ - Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
- Pattern Thinking in Music
http://www.seepatts.com/ - Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
- Polytempo Music Articles
http://www.greschak.com/polytempo/ - Articles by John Greschak. Includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
- Skytopia: Music and Art Aesthetics
http://www.skytopia.com/project/rating.html - 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.
- The Ancient Musical Modes
http://www.pathguy.com/modes.htm - Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
- The Method Behind the Music
http://www.numbera.com/musictheory/ - A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
- The Musical Intervals Tutor
http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/ - Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
- Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony
http://www.geocities.com/yaaarrrgg/music/ - Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
- What is Music - Solving a Scientific Mystery
http://whatismusic.info/ - Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory.
- Music Theory Instruction
http://www.angelfire.com/music5/theory/ - Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
- Schoen Musical Notation
http://www.illuschoen.net/sn/sn.htm - Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
- Solomon's Music Resources
http://solomonsmusic.net/ - Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
- eMusicTheory.com
http://www.emusictheory.com/ - Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
- 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept
http://www.jazcraft.net/8tone.html - Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
- Simplified Music Chord Theory
http://www.rpsoft2000.com/rps_chordtheory.htm - Explains scales and building chords from them.
- Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation
http://www.freewebs.com/gustavsphinx/ - Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
- Music Theory for the Short Attention Span
http://www.folkblues.com/theory/ - Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
- Tonality Guide
http://www.tonalityguide.com/ - Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
- Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc/i17.html - Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
- A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony
http://www.standingstones.com/modeharm.html - A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
- Music Acoustics
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/ - The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
- Analysis of Masterpieces
http://www.geocities.jp/musikanalyse/eng/text/textE.html - Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
- The Music Theory Minute
http://www.musictheoryminute.com/ - Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
- Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools
http://www.kunstderfuge.com/theory.htm - Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
- A-Natural Atonality
http://www.greenwych.ca/atonal.htm - Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
- AP Music Theory
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/repository/52437_apmusiclocked_4324.pdf - Information about studying for and taking the advanced placement music theory exam.
- Modes and Scales in Indian Music
http://chandrakantha.com/articles/scales.html - A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
- Creativelab
http://creativelab.kiev.ua/ - Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
- Abacci Music Lessons
http://www.abacci.com/music/lessons/default.asp - Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.
- Music Theory
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/lennon/23/theory.html - Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
- Essentials of Music Theory
http://musictheory.redzeppelin.org/ - Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
- VCU Music Theory Resources
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bhammel/theory/resources/index.html - Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
- Interval and Chord Ear-Training
http://www.auralskills.com/ - This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
- Music Worksheets
http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/worksheets.htm - Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
- Theory on the Web
http://www.smu.edu/totw/toc.htm - Intermediate music theory review for college students.
- Music Theory Help Site
http://www.wmich.edu/mus-history/TheoryHelp/TheoryHelp.html - Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
- Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns
http://www.rhythm-patterns.narod.ru/ - Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
- Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music
http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/music/ - A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
- The Tonal Centre
http://www.tonalcentre.org/ - Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.
- Nuottila
http://www.nuottila.info/2007/ - Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
- The Musical Octave
http://home22.inet.tele.dk/hightower/ - 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.
- Music Theory Society of New York State
http://www.ithaca.edu/music/mtsnys/ - 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.
- Music Theory
http://www.musictheoryblog.blogspot.com - A guide to music theory that including chords, scales, music notation and other music theory topics. Has blog format; includes links as well.
Newsgroups
| Category Editors: chompy |
| Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. |
| Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor |
Knowledge.com ™ directory, provided by Knowledge Matters Limited.
"Knowledge.com" is a Registered Trademark of Knowledge Matters Limited.