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Good Ear
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Online ear training site.
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Practical Music Theory
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Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
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Theory of Music with Ted Kirk
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Resources for learning and teaching music theory to grade 5 of the Associated Board (UK).
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Polytonic Harmony
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Allows for the creation of music in multiple, simultaneous keys as well as a practical method of voice-leading these chords.
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The Anatomy of a Fugue
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An outline of the substantials of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue." Topics include counterpoint, subject, answer, and stretto.
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The Tonal Centre - Tonality
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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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Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory
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Includes 25 lessons on music theory, including scales, transposition, intervals, and score formats.
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Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
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Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
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Star Theory
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Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
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Multimedia Music Theory Tutorial
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A concise summary of important concepts in music.
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Bimodalism, A New Dimension and Ethos in Harmony
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Contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
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WholeARTS Music Conservatory
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Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
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Syntactic Structures in Music
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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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The Society for Music Theory
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Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
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AP Music Theory
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Information about studying for and taking the advanced placement music theory exam.
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Eric's Treasure Trove of Music
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A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
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Rhythm Exercises
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Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm. By Nick Marshall.
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Mr B's Music Tutorial
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By a music educator for students, a guide to self study covering music reading, piano, guitar, composers, and music history.
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Fundamentals of Raga
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Introduction to the Indian modal form known as "rag" or "raga".
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Elements of Music Notation
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Basic introduction to reading music. Learn note names, clefs, staff, signs. Worksheets and answer keys included.
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Harmonic Bindings
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A paper about the unification of Janeãek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
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The Basics of Reading Music
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Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner.
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Gems of Compositional Wisdom
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Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
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Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics
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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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SchenkerGuide
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An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
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Music Theory Online
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Offering a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
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Auto-Transposer
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Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
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Dynamic Spectrograms of Music
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Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
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Music Awareness
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Tools for learning music theory and harmony principles experientially. Simplified terms and notation.
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Musica Theoria
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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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Out of Light - Cometh Darkness
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A paper on the significance of dark ambient music in relation to poststructuralist theories.
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Pattern Thinking in Music
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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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Polytempo Music Articles
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Articles by John Greschak. Includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
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Skytopia: Music and Art Aesthetics
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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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The Ancient Musical Modes: What Were They?
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A different idea about the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
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The Method Behind the Music
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A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
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The Musical Intervals Tutor
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Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
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Timing Progression Theory
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Improvisational and atonal music played along four-beat base with constant tempo presented by Aratori. Includes MP3 sound.
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A Model of Harmony
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Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony. [Requires Flash 4+]
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What is Music?: Solving a Scientific Mystery
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Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory. Download available.
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Music Theory Instruction
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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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Schoen Musical Notation
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Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
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Chiasmata Modality
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An experimental modality.
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Solomon's Music Theory and Composition Resources
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Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
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eMusicTheory.com
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Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
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A-Natural Atonality
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Debunks atonality as unnatural and tonality as normal.
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8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept
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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 composers.?
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Simplified Music Chord Theory
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Explains scales and building chords from them.
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Introduction to Music
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Lessons to learn about some of the basic concepts of western music and how it is notated on paper.
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Zeuxilogy
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A new theory of musical time, developed in the past twelve years by the music theorist Andrei Pogorilowski.
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Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation
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Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
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Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory
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Free music theory lessons on the net, from the beginning, with no registration. How to write scales, chords and triads. Offers FAQ, quick find and lessons 1 to 25. Gives contact information.
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Music Theory
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Articles, online reference books, interactive exercises, and questions.
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Elements of Music Notation
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Basic introduction to reading music. Learn note names, clefs, staff, and signs. Worksheets with answer keys included.
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The Basics of Reading Music
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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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Java Music Theory
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Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
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