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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.
- While Patricia Gray intends her Flash animations as aids to the teaching of Music History, many of them will interest the theoretician as well; the index takes you to about two dozen links.
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| Contrapuntal Techniques |
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| Tuning Issues |
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| 20th Century Musical Techniques |
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| Ear Training |
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(see also the listings in the Software section)
- Ricci Adams' musictheory.net contains lessons, trainers and utilities; the trainers and utilities can be used in any Flash-enabled browser, or downloaded for use on a Mac or PC. (RECOMMENDED as a supplement to MacGamut.)
- Teoria Musical offers some online ear-training exercises (good: you can change the sound; bad: it doesn't keep score for you like Ricci Adams' site does; nevertheless, RECOMMENDED as a supplement to MacGamut)
- Good-Ear.com offers online drills for intervals, scales, chords, and much more, all from your browser. (RECOMMENDED as a supplement to MacGamut.)
- Big Ears uses a Java applet running in your Web browser. (RECOMMENDED as a supplement to MacGamut.)
- Jay Tomlin's Rhythm and Meter Bibliography (annotated) and Glossary are quite worth a look.
- Douglas Spangler's Music Software for Eartraining list may be a little outdated (last revised in 1999), but it identifies and reviews more than 50 applications (including about 15 free or Web-based packages).
- Many links to Software Resources (see esp. the section on Aural Training and Music Theory Software)
- Free downloadable Ear Training Software runs on both PCs and Macs.
- The MIDI-Based Ear Training Site alledgedly works in your Web browser (using downloadable audio files), but I couldn't figure out how to use it...
- Post-Tonal Ear-Training Suite (downloadable software; PC only)
- Various downloadable PC software packages are available from the Ear Training WebSite (free to try, $$ after a specified number of uses).
- An extensive discussion of techniques for training your ears may point you to some helpful ideas; from Connexions.
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| Miscellaneous / Other Pages of Links |
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- Free Sheet Music for Pianos and Guitars has a comprehensive online Music Dictionary.
- 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.
- The Duke University Library offers categorized Classical Music 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.
- 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.)
- Music Resources on the Internet: Notation/Theory by Kalvos & Damian.
- Some of the references at The Music Link Page might prove helpful.
- Composition Techniques at i write the music.com (some good stuff, but lotsa dead links the last time I checked).
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