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Society for Music Theory - http://www.societymusictheory.org/
Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal. |
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Music Acoustics - http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/
The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation. |
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Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - http://www.musictheory.net/
Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books. |
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Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music - http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/music/
A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics. |
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Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics - http://www.public.coe.edu/~jcotting/tcmu/
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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eMusicTheory.com - http://www.emusictheory.com/
Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills. |
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http://www.teoria.com/ - http://www.teoria.com/
Includes software, books, exercises, and links. |
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Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online - http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm
Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing. |
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The Tonal Centre - http://www.tonalcentre.org/
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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SchenkerGuide - http://www.schenkerguide.com/
An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography. |
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Creativelab - http://creativelab.kiev.ua/
Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian. |
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Modes and Scales in Indian Music - http://chandrakantha.com/articles/scales.html
A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches. |
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Interactive Circle of Fifths - http://randscullard.com/CircleOfFifths/
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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The Music Theory Minute - http://www.musictheoryminute.com/
Online music theory tutorials for beginning students. |
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WholeArts - Music Conservatory - http://www.wholarts.com/music/ed/intro.htm
Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition. |
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Pattern Thinking in Music - http://www.seepatts.com/
Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download. |
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Polytempo Music Articles - http://www.greschak.com/polytempo/
Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music. |
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Skytopia: Music and Art Aesthetics - http://www.skytopia.com/project/rating.html
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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The Musical Intervals Tutor - http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/
Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing. |
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Music Theory Instruction - http://www.angelfire.com/music5/theory/
Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales. |
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Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major - http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc/i17.html
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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A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony - http://www.standingstones.com/modeharm.html
A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era. |
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Harmonic Bindings - http://www.sweb.cz/vladimir_ladma/english/music/articles/ifsa97.htm
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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Atonal Set Calculator - http://ericandchar.com/atonal/
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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Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns - http://www.rhythm-patterns.narod.ru/
Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files. |