Open Directory - Arts: Music: Theory
See also: This category in other languages: - Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications. - A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era. - Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural. - Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces. - 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. - Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions. - A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition. - Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing. - Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music. - A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics. - Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills. - Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I - Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis. - Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts. - Online ear training site. - A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations. - By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos. - 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. - A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches. - The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation. - Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal 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. - Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint. - Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales. - 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. - Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained. - Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students. - Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java] - Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download. - Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books. - An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography. - Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files. - Explains scales and building chords from them. - 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. - Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal. - Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions. - Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration. - 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. - Includes software, books, exercises, and links. - Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle. - An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue." - Online music theory tutorials for beginning students. - Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing. - Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation. - Intermediate music theory review for college students. - Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples. - Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University. - Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory. - Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
