Sites offering music theory, both specific and general, are listed here. Music theory is "a branch of study that includes many different methods for analyzing, classifying, and composing music and the elements of music." (You will find a good writeup of music theory at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theory ) Music Theory is not Musicology. Musicology seeks answers questions for Who, What, ... [MORE] Educational Software@ (42) Magazines & E-zines (2) Theorists (3) Tuning Systems (34) 1. 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept NEW! - 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. 2. Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation - Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis. 3. Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online NEW! - Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing. 4. Dynamic Spectrograms of Music - Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music. 5. eMusicTheory.com - Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills. 6. SchenkerGuide - An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography. 7. Schoen Musical Notation - Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion. 8. Simplified Music Chord Theory - Explains scales and building chords from them. 9. Society for Music Theory NEW! - Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal. 10. Solomon's Music Resources NEW! - Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions. 11. 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. 12. The Method Behind the Music - A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting. 13. A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony NEW! - A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era. 14. A-Natural Atonality NEW! - Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural. 15. Analysis of Masterpieces NEW! - Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces. 16. Auto-Transposer - Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions. 17. Bimodalism NEW! - A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition. 18. Chordwizard: How Music Works NEW! - A concise summary of important concepts in music. 19. Creativelab NEW! - Visual representations of music expressed in terms of colors. In English, Ukrainian and Russian. 20. Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music NEW! - A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics. 21. FolkBlues.Com - Music Theory for the Short Attention Span - Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained. 22. Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major NEW! - Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I 23. Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools NEW! - Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis. 24. Gems of Compositional Wisdom - Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts. 25. Good Ear - Online ear training site. 26. Harmonic Bindings - A paper about the unification of Janeãek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations. 27. Harmony.org.uk NEW! - By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos. 28. Modes and Scales in Indian Music NEW! - A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches. 29. Music Acoustics NEW! - The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation. 30. Music Theory Instruction - Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales. 31. Musica Theoria - Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history. 32. MusicArrangers.com - Star Theory NEW! - Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration. 33. Olav Torvund's Guitar Pages - Music Theory NEW! - A series of lessons on practical music theory applied to guitar. 34. Pattern Thinking in Music - Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download. 35. Polytempo Music Articles - Articles by John Greschak. Includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography of polytempo music. 36. Rhythm Exercises - Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm. By Nick Marshall. 37. Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books. 38. 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. 39. Teoria NEW! - Includes software, books, exercises, and links. 40. The Ancient Musical Modes NEW! - Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle. 41. The Basics of Reading Music - Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner. 42. The Fugue NEW! - An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue." 43. The Music Theory Minute NEW! - Online music theory tutorials for beginning students. 44. The Musical Intervals Tutor - Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing. 45. The Tonal Centre NEW! - Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation. 46. Tonality Guide - Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples. 47. Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony NEW! - Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony. [Requires Flash 4+] 48. What is Music - Solving a Scientific Mystery NEW! - Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory. Download available. 49. WholeArts - Music Conservatory NEW! - Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.

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