| 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. |
| 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. |
| Musica Theoria |
Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history. |
| WholeARTS Music Conservatory |
Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition. |
| The Method Behind the Music |
A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting. |
| The Society for Music Theory |
Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal. |
| Mr B's Music Tutorial |
By a music educator for students, a guide to self study covering music reading, piano, guitar, composers, and music history. |
| Elements of Music Notation |
Basic introduction to reading music. Learn note names, clefs, staff, signs. Worksheets and answer keys included. |
| Chiasmata Modality |
An experimental modality. |
| Schoen Musical Notation |
Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion. |
| Bimodalism, A New Dimension and Ethos in Harmony |
Contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition. |
| Zeuxilogy |
A new theory of musical time, developed in the past twelve years by the music theorist Andrei Pogorilowski. |
| Music Theory Online |
Offering a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing. |
| Multimedia Music Theory Tutorial |
A concise summary of important concepts in music. |
| Out of Light - Cometh Darkness |
A paper on the significance of dark ambient music in relation to poststructuralist theories. |
| Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net |
Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books. |
| 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. Download available. |
| Solomon's Music Theory and Composition Resources |
Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions. |
| A Model of Harmony |
Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony. [Requires Flash 4+] |
| The Anatomy of a Fugue |
An outline of the substantials of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue." Topics include counterpoint, subject, answer, and stretto. |
