| 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. |
| Theory of Music with Ted Kirk |
Resources for learning and teaching music theory to grade 5 of the Associated Board (UK). |
| eMusicTheory.com |
Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills. |
| The Ancient Musical Modes: What Were They? |
A different idea about the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle. |
| Dynamic Spectrograms of Music |
Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music. |
| Gems of Compositional Wisdom |
Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts. |
| Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory |
Includes 25 lessons on music theory, including scales, transposition, intervals, and score formats. |
| Eric's Treasure Trove of Music |
A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics. |
| 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. |
| Good Ear |
Online ear training site. |
| 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept |
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... |
| Introduction to Music |
Lessons to learn about some of the basic concepts of western music and how it is notated on paper. |
| Polytempo Music Articles |
Articles by John Greschak. Includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography of polytempo music. |
| The Tonal Centre - Tonality |
Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation. |
| SchenkerGuide |
An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography. |
| Star Theory |
Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration. |
| The Basics of Reading Music |
Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner. |
| Harmonic Bindings |
A paper about the unification of Janeãek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations. |
| Simplified Music Chord Theory |
Explains scales and building chords from them. |
| Auto-Transposer |
Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions. |
| Rhythm Exercises |
Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm. By Nick Marshall. |
| Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation |
Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis. |
| Syntactic Structures in Music |
By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos. |
| Music Theory Instruction |
Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales. |
| The Musical Intervals Tutor |
Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing. |
| Practical Music Theory |
Includes software, books, exercises, and links. |
| Fundamentals of Raga |
Introduction to the Indian modal form known as "rag" or "raga". |
| Fred Lerdahl's Attack on Serialism |
Discussion of Lerdahl's published article "Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems", which explores the relationship between composing and listening. |
| Pattern Thinking in Music |
Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download. |
| Timing Progression Theory |
Improvisational and atonal music played along four-beat base with constant tempo presented by Aratori. Includes MP3 sound. |
