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Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
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A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
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Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
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Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.
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Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
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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.
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Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
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A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
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Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
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A concise summary of important concepts in music.
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Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
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Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
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Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
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A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
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Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
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Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
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Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
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Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
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Online ear training site.
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A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
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By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos.
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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.
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This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
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Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
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A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
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A guide to music theory that including chords, scales, music notation and other music theory topics. Has weblog format; includes links as well.
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Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
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Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
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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.
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Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
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Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
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Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
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Learn about acoustics of different instruments, the sound spectrum, standing wave patterns supported by different air columns on this page by The University of New South Wales, Australia .
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Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
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Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
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Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
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Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.
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Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
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An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
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Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
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Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
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Explains scales and building chords from them.
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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.
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Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
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Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
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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.
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Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
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Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
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Kevin Meixner offers a free tutorial that teaches about the staff, treble clefs, bass clefs, and note names. Includes audio samples.
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An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
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A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
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Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
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Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
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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.
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Promotes music theory as both a scholarly and a pedagogical discipline. The Society holds annual meetings, publishes two journals (Music Theory Spectrum and Music Theory Online), and encourages scholarly excellence.
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Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.
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Intermediate music theory review for college students.
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Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
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Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
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Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory.
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Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
