 Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation - http://www.freewebs.com/gustavsphinx/ Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis. |
 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. |
 Music Theory - http://www.musictheoryblog.blogspot.com A guide to music theory that including chords, scales, music notation and other music theory topics. Has weblog format; includes links as well. |
 Music Theory - http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/lennon/23/theory.html Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory. |
 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. |
 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. |
 The Ancient Musical Modes - http://www.pathguy.com/modes.htm Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle. |
 Chordwizard: How Music Works - http://www.chordwizard.com/theory.html A concise summary of important concepts in music. |
 The Fugue - http://musik.freepage.de/cpb7079/inhalt.html An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue." |
 Harmony.org.uk - http://www.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. |
 Music Theory Society of New York State - http://www.ithaca.edu/music/mtsnys/ 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. |
 Star Theory - http://www.musicarrangers.com/star-theory/ Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration. |
 SchenkerGuide - http://www.schenkerguide.com/ An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography. |
 eMusicTheory.com - http://www.emusictheory.com/ Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills. |
 Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - http://www.musictheory.net/ Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books. |
 Auto-Transposer - http://www.autotransposer.com/ Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions. |
 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. |
 Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns - http://www.rhythm-patterns.narod.ru/ Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files. |
 The Musical Intervals Tutor - http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/ Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing. |
 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 |
 Music Acoustics - http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/ The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation. |
 Gems of Compositional Wisdom - http://www.cosmoedu.net/DoctorFields/ Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Good Ear - http://www.good-ear.com/ Online ear training site. |
 VCU Music Theory Resources - http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bhammel/theory/resources/index.html Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University. |
 Theory on the Web - http://www.smu.edu/totw/toc.htm Intermediate music theory review for college students. |
 Music Theory Help Site - http://www.wmich.edu/mus-history/TheoryHelp/TheoryHelp.html Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint. |
 What is Music - Solving a Scientific Mystery - http://whatismusic.info/ Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory. |
 Society for Music Theory - http://www.societymusictheory.org/ Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal. |
 Bimodalism - http://www.ubieta.com/bimodalism/ A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition. |
 WholeArts - Music Conservatory - http://www.wholarts.com/music/ed/intro.htm Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition. |
 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept - http://www.jazcraft.net/8tone.html Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications. |
 Analysis of Masterpieces - http://www.geocities.jp/musikanalyse/eng/text/textE.html Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces. |
 Teoria - http://www.teoria.com/ Includes software, books, exercises, and links. |
 Dynamic Spectrograms of Music - http://nastechservices.com/Spectrograms.html Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music. |
 Simplified Music Chord Theory - http://www.rpsoft2000.com/rps_chordtheory.htm Explains scales and building chords from them. |
 Schoen Musical Notation - http://www.illuschoen.net/sn/sn.htm Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion. |
 Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online - http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing. |
 Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools - http://www.kunstderfuge.com/theory.htm Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis. |
 Polytempo Music Articles - http://www.greschak.com/polytempo/ Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Nuottila - http://www.nuottila.info/2007/ Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java] |
 Solomon's Music Resources - http://solomonsmusic.net/ Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions. |
 Tonality Guide - http://www.tonalityguide.com/ Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples. |
 Music Theory for the Short Attention Span - http://www.folkblues.com/theory/ Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained. |
 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. |
 The Music Theory Minute - http://www.musictheoryminute.com/ Online music theory tutorials for beginning students. |
 A-Natural Atonality - http://www.greenwych.ca/atonal.htm Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural. |
 Essentials of Music Theory - http://musictheory.redzeppelin.org/ Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills. |
 Creativelab - http://creativelab.kiev.ua/ Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian. |
 Music Worksheets - http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/worksheets.htm Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students. |