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Theory:

Abacci Music Lessons

Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.

http://www.abacci.com/music/lessons/default.asp

Analysis of Masterpieces

Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.

http://www.geocities.jp/musikanalyse/eng/text/textE.html

A-Natural Atonality

Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.

http://www.greenwych.ca/atonal.htm

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

The Ancient Musical Modes

Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.

http://www.pathguy.com/modes.htm

Atonal Set Calculator

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/

Auto-Transposer

Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.

http://www.autotransposer.com/

The Basics of Reading Music

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

Bimodalism

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/

Chordwizard: How Music Works

A concise summary of important concepts in music.

http://www.chordwizard.com/theory.html

Creativelab

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

Dynamic Spectrograms of Music

Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.

http://nastechservices.com/Spectrograms.html

eMusicTheory.com

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/

Essentials of Music Theory

Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.

http://musictheory.redzeppelin.org/

The Fugue

An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."

http://musik.freepage.de/cpb7079/inhalt.html

Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major

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

Gems of Compositional Wisdom

Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.

http://www.cosmoedu.net/DoctorFields/

Good Ear

Online ear training site.

http://www.good-ear.com/

Harmonic Bindings

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

Harmony.org.uk

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/

Interactive Circle of Fifths

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/

The Method Behind the Music

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

Music Acoustics

The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/

Music Theory

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

Music Theory

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/

Music Theory Help Site

Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.

http://www.wmich.edu/mus-history/TheoryHelp/TheoryHelp.html

Music Theory Instruction

Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.

http://www.angelfire.com/music5/theory/

The Music Theory Minute

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/

Music Worksheets

Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.

http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/worksheets.htm

Musica Theoria

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/

The Musical Intervals Tutor

Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.

http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/

The Musical Octave

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/

Nuottila

Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]

http://www.nuottila.info/2007/

Pattern Thinking in Music

Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.

http://www.seepatts.com/

Polytempo Music Articles

Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.

http://www.greschak.com/polytempo/

Rhythm Exercises

Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.

http://www.izap.com/~pinnacle/rhythms/

Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net

Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.

http://www.musictheory.net/

SchenkerGuide

An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.

http://www.schenkerguide.com/

Schoen Musical Notation

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/

Simplified Music Chord Theory

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

Society for Music Theory

Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.

http://www.societymusictheory.org/

Solomon's Music Resources

Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.

http://solomonsmusic.net/

Star Theory

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/

Teoria

Includes software, books, exercises, and links.

http://www.teoria.com/

Theory on the Web

Intermediate music theory review for college students.

http://www.smu.edu/totw/toc.htm

The Tonal Centre

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/

Tonality Guide

Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.

http://www.tonalityguide.com/

8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept

Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.

http://www.jazcraft.net/8tone.html

VCU Music Theory Resources

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

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Gordon Brown confirms the government will not be giving consumers a one-off payment to help with rising fuel bills.

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