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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.
- You might not need it now, but when you need to teach basic music theory concepts (note names, note values, and the like) to kids, TheMightyMaestro.com might have just the thing. Test the light version online, then decide whether to download the full (paid) version or buy a license for the full online version.
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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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