Sites offering music theory, both specific and general, are listed here. Music theory is "a branch of study that includes many different methods for analyzing, classifying, and composing music and the elements of music." (You will find a good writeup of music theory at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theory ) Music Theory is not Musicology. Musicology seeks answers questions for Who, What, Where, When and Why questions. Music Theory seeks answers for How.
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  • Good Ear
    Online ear training site.
  • Teoria
    Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
  • The Fugue
    An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
  • Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
    Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
  • Star Theory
    Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
  • Chordwizard: How Music Works
    A concise summary of important concepts in music.
  • Bimodalism
    A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
  • WholeArts - Music Conservatory
    Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
  • 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.
  • Society for Music Theory
    Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
  • Rhythm Exercises
    Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.
  • Harmonic Bindings
    A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
  • Gems of Compositional Wisdom
    Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
  • 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.
  • SchenkerGuide
    An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
  • Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online
    Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
  • Auto-Transposer
    Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
  • Dynamic Spectrograms of Music
    Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
  • Musica Theoria
    Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
  • Pattern Thinking in Music
    Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
  • Polytempo Music Articles
    Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
  • 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.
  • The Ancient Musical Modes
    Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
  • The Musical Intervals Tutor
    Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
  • Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony
    Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
  • 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.
  • Music Theory Instruction
    Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
  • Schoen Musical Notation
    Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
  • Solomon's Music Resources
    Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
  • eMusicTheory.com
    Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
  • 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept
    Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
  • Simplified Music Chord Theory
    Explains scales and building chords from them.
  • Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation
    Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
  • Music Theory for the Short Attention Span
    Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
  • Tonality Guide
    Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
  • 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
  • A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony
    A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
  • Music Acoustics
    The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
  • Analysis of Masterpieces
    Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
  • The Music Theory Minute
    Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
  • Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools
    Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
  • A-Natural Atonality
    Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
  • Modes and Scales in Indian Music
    A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
  • Creativelab
    Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
  • Abacci Music Lessons
    Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.
  • Music Theory
    Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
  • Essentials of Music Theory
    Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
  • VCU Music Theory Resources
    Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
  • Interval and Chord Ear-Training
    This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
  • Music Worksheets
    Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
  • Theory on the Web
    Intermediate music theory review for college students.
  • Music Theory Help Site
    Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
  • Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns
    Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
  • Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music
    A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
  • 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.
  • Nuottila
    Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
    URL : www.musictheory.net
    Animated music theory lessons, with note and interval trainers, ear trainers, chord calculators, and more.[2008/11/02]
  • eMusicTheory.com home
    URL : www.emusictheory.com
    eMusicTheory.com provides online tools for teachers and students of basic music theory, everywhere. ... Teaching Music or Music Theory? Studying Music? ...[2008/10/06]
  • M-Theory Music : Online Independent Music Store and Record Store, San ...
    URL : www.mtheorymusic.com
    M-Theory Music carries CDs, Vinyl, and DVDs in most all genres, but has a particular passion for indie rock, hip hop, jazz, soul, metal/punk, & electronic. New! ...[2008/11/26]
  • Music theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theory
    In the context of theory, a piece of music may be melodically based. ... Western music theory generally divides the octave into a series of 12 notes that ...[2008/11/21]
  • Teoria
    URL : www.teoria.com
    Devoted to practical music theory.[2008/11/19]
  • Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online Contents
    URL : www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm
    music help, recorder, beckfluto, blockflauta, blockfleita, blokflojte, ... Music Theory & History Online Contents - the page you are now at ...[2008/09/15]
  • Set theory (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory_(music)
    Musical set theory deals with collections of pitches and pitch classes, which ... The methods of musical set theory are sometimes applied to the analysis of ...[2008/11/17]
  • Music Theory On Line
    URL : music-theory.com
    Music Theory On Line is an interactive college preparatory distance learning music theory course. ... is to make music theory available to college bound ...[2007/01/06]
  • Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory
    URL : musictheory.halifax.ns.ca
    Free online lessons designed to offer some rudimentary knowledge of the concepts of music.[2008/11/15]
  • Learn guitar theory on the fretboard. How to properly apply music ...
    URL : guitar-music-theory.com/index.html
    Guitar theory - learn how to apply music theory to the guitar fretboard. ... You don't have to sacrifice your tastes in order to study music theory. ...[2008/10/21]
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