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| General Theory / Tonal Harmony |
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- Gary Ewers' online Easy Music Theory course contains 26 chapters of material; begin with chapter 1.
- Phillip Magnuson's Sound Patterns is an excellent online theory course in 52 chapters (plus appendices)!
- Dr. Robert J. Frank at Southern Methodist University offers another complete course of Theory on the Web in 22 chapters plus appendices.
- Tom Pankhurst's TonalityGUIDE.com offers an introduction to the subject as well as a reference guide and online exercises and tutorials. For the online course on tonal harmony, start at the Table of Contents.
- Music Theory Resources has a section entitled First Aid for Struggling Students.
- teoría - Music theory Web by José Rodríguez Alvira offers an Online Music Theory Reference plus much more.
- MiBAC (Music Instruction By A Computer) Software sells packages for the Mac and PC, but they also have excerpts from their courses available online: go directly to Music Lessons I Theory (Fundamentals) or Music Lessons II Theory (Chords and Harmony).
- Dr. Brian Blood has authored a huge (
42 44 chapter!) course, Music Theory Online. (Its parent site, Dolmetsch Online, is a fascinating place for early music enthusiasts.)
- Love him or hate him, Heinrich Schenker made significant contributions in the area of musical analysis. SchenkerGuide, courtesy of Tom Pankhurst, explains all.
- Google's list of Music Theory Resources has a number of listings and sub-categories for your browsing.
- MUTE. (music theory on the web) offers quick reference material on the elements of harmony. Unfortunately, its English-language section seems to have disappeared, but if you can read Finnish, you might find the pages helpful.
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| Musical Form |
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- Musical Forms is an index to brief extracts from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music.
- A Beginner's Guide to Sonata Form has all manner of appealing graphics to help you understand this fundamental form.
- Timothy A. Smith not only offers superb analyses of The Canons and Fugues of J.S. Bach, but presents the information in an interesting and engaging manner.
- Timothy Cutler's Tonal Music Theory Examples show how composers handle various chord voicing and part writing issues. Nearly every example is available in Flash, PDF and MOV fomats.
- Patricia Gray's Teaching Resources page has links to some very cool analytical and music history tools.
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| Contrapuntal Techniques |
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| Tuning Issues |
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| 20th Century Musical Techniques |
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| Miscellaneous / Other Pages of Links |
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- Larry Solomon has has made many of his articles on music theory topics available online at Music Theory & Analysis. Use the Miscellaneous section at the bottom to drill through to a huge number of other (off-site) theory resources.
- Google's categorized (and sub-categorized) listings in Composition, Directories, History, Musicology, general Resources, Styles, Theory and Women in Music might prove interesting and helpful.
- Gems of Musical Wisdom by composer Matthew H. Fields.
- This page from Leaving Certificate Music has a couple handfuls of links to interesting resources.
- Gilder's Dictionary of Composers contains 151 biographical sketches of composers.
- The Classical Composers Database is an astonishing reference to well over 2200 composers of all stripes.
- Music Theory links (General Western Music Theory and Contemporary Music Theory) from the University of Washington's EServer (English Server).
- The MusicalOnline: Music Theory list has too many dead links, but the ones that work might prove helpful.
- Essentials of Music offers overviews of musical periods, composer biographies, and a glossary with 200 entries.
- Is practicing and performing killing you (literally)? Perhaps the Musicians and Injuries page from the Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln can point you in the direction of some relief.
- A page of links to free online music dictionaries. (There's a lot of advertising and irrelevant junk on this page, but the links that work can be quite helpful.)
- Composition Techniques at i write the music.com (some good stuff, but lots to wade through since they put everything on one huge page).
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