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Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.
http://www.abacci.com/music/lessons/default.asp
Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
http://www.geocities.jp/musikanalyse/eng/text/textE.html
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Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
http://www.greenwych.ca/atonal.htm
Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
http://www.pathguy.com/modes.htm
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.
http://ericandchar.com/atonal/
Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
http://www.autotransposer.com/
Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner.
http://www.notationmachine.com/how_to_read_sheetmusic/readingmusic.htm
A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony
A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
http://www.standingstones.com/modeharm.html
A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
http://www.ubieta.com/bimodalism/
Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation
Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
http://www.freewebs.com/gustavsphinx/
A concise summary of important concepts in music.
http://www.chordwizard.com/theory.html
Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
http://creativelab.kiev.ua/
Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online
Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm
Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
http://nastechservices.com/Spectrograms.html
Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
http://www.emusictheory.com/
Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music
A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/music/
Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
http://musictheory.redzeppelin.org/
An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
http://musik.freepage.de/cpb7079/inhalt.html
Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc/i17.html
Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools
Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
http://www.kunstderfuge.com/theory.htm
Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
http://www.cosmoedu.net/DoctorFields/
Online ear training site.
http://www.good-ear.com/
A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
http://www.sweb.cz/vladimir_ladma/english/music/articles/ifsa97.htm
By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos.
http://www.harmony.org.uk/
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.
http://randscullard.com/CircleOfFifths/
Interval and Chord Ear-Training
This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
http://www.auralskills.com/
A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
http://www.numbera.com/musictheory/
Modes and Scales in Indian Music
A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
http://chandrakantha.com/articles/scales.html
The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/
A guide to music theory that including chords, scales, music notation and other music theory topics. Has weblog format; includes links as well.
http://www.musictheoryblog.blogspot.com
Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/lennon/23/theory.html
Music Theory for the Short Attention Span
Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
http://www.folkblues.com/theory/
Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
http://www.wmich.edu/mus-history/TheoryHelp/TheoryHelp.html
Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
http://www.angelfire.com/music5/theory/
Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
http://www.musictheoryminute.com/
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.
http://www.ithaca.edu/music/mtsnys/
Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/worksheets.htm
Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/zentaoguy/
Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/
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.
http://home22.inet.tele.dk/hightower/
Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
http://www.nuottila.info/2007/
Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
http://www.seepatts.com/
Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
http://www.greschak.com/polytempo/
Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.
http://www.izap.com/~pinnacle/rhythms/
Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
http://www.musictheory.net/
An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
http://www.schenkerguide.com/
Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
http://www.illuschoen.net/sn/sn.htm
Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns
Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
http://www.rhythm-patterns.narod.ru/
Explains scales and building chords from them.
http://www.rpsoft2000.com/rps_chordtheory.htm
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.
http://www.skytopia.com/project/rating.html
Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
http://www.societymusictheory.org/
Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
http://solomonsmusic.net/
Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
http://www.musicarrangers.com/star-theory/
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.
http://www.public.coe.edu/~jcotting/tcmu/
Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
http://www.teoria.com/
Intermediate music theory review for college students.
http://www.smu.edu/totw/toc.htm
Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.
http://www.tonalcentre.org/
Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
http://www.tonalityguide.com/
Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
http://www.jazcraft.net/8tone.html
Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bhammel/theory/resources/index.html
Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony
Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
http://www.geocities.com/yaaarrrgg/music/
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.
http://whatismusic.info/
WholeArts - Music Conservatory
Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
http://www.wholarts.com/music/ed/intro.htm