MusicTheory

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=**Resources for Theory: http://bbamusic.wikispaces.com/Music+Theory+Resources**= =Table of Contents= Resources for Theory:Online SoftwareTheory Text Notes, Keys and ScalesRhythm Drills:TriadsInversionsIntervals:CadencesProgressionsBach TipsPart WritingNon Harmonic TonesSecondary DominantsInteresting Chord FormationsFormListeningEar TrainingFilm ScoringAdditional Links: Staff Paper Generator Musical Terms [|quickfacts THeory.pdf]

**Online Software**
Music Trainers [|here] [|Teoria.com] Self Tests[|Term Games]
 * [|Staves Pitches, Clefs and Keyboards]

**Theory Text**
[|Basic Music Theory - How To Read,Write,And Understand Written Music.pdf] [|Music Theory- University Oregon.pdf] Serious text! [|Basic theory 2.pdf]

[|Online Workbooks]

**Notes, Keys and Scales**
Keyboard Trainer [|Find the note on the Piano!] Note trainer [|Speed read Note names] [|Notes and rests] [|Using the minor key] Circle of Fifths [|Key Signatures] [|Another Drill for Keys] Key Trainer [|Build Scales in Treble Clef] [|Build Scales in Bass Clef]
 * [|Notes Scales and Key Signatures]
 * [|More Scales and Key Signatures]

**Rhythm Drills:**
[|Practice Sight Reading Ryhthms] [|Tap your Mouse] [|Rhythmic Dictation]
 * [|Rhythm Notation]
 * [|Meter]
 * [|Reading Rhythm]

=**Triads**=

[|Introduction to Chords] [|Diatonic Triads] [|Build Chords in Treble Clef] [|Build Chords in Bass Clef] [|Chords] Explained Triad Trainer Chord Calculator [|Voicing Choirds]
 * [|Chords]

**Inversions**
[|Triad Inversions] [|Seventh Chord Inversion] The Six Four Chord [|First Analysis] [|Using the Second inversion] [|Composing with the first inversion]

**Intervals:**
[] Interval Trainer [|WHITE NOTE INTERVALS.doc] [|Intervals.doc] [|Intervals book.pdf] [|Generic Intervals] [|Specific Intervals] [|Writing intervals] [|Inverting an interval] [|Treble Clef Intervals] [|Bass Clef Intervals]
 * [|Intervals]

**Cadences**
Cadences [|Cadences] Cadences Explained [|Phrases and Cadences]

=**Progressions**=

Interactive Chord Chart [|The Circle Progression] - Down a fifth [|Some additional ways to look at progressions] [|Analaysis example 2]

**Bach Tips**
Counterpoint concepts [|Counterpoint Defined]

=**Part Writing**= [|Great Website on Four Part Writing] Four part Rules and help Consonance and Dissonance

**Non Harmonic Tones**
[|Non Harmonic Tones!] Non Chord Tones explained simply [|Non Chord Tones explained in depth] Non Harmonic Tone Self test - no password required!

**Secondary Dominants**
Secondary Dominant Construction Secondary Dominant Identification

**Interesting Chord Formations**
Neopolitan Page [|Neopolitan Chords] [|Using the Neopolitan Chord] [|Analysis 3] Augmented Sixth Chords

**Form**
Form links [|Basic Assumptions concerning form] [|Motive, Phrase and Period] [|Cadence] [|Binary form] [|Ternary form] [|Rounded binary form] [|Sonata form] [|Rondo form] [|Theme and variation] Dance forms Moment form

**Listening**
Harmonic Dictations Non harmonic Tone Examples Analytical Listening Cadence Aural Examples Harmonic Progressions

**Ear Training**
[|Benward/Kolosick Ear Training Examples] []

Other Web Resources

**Film Scoring**
Videos

=**Additional Links:**=


 * [|Analysis of Masterpieces] - Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
 * [|A-Natural Atonality] - Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
 * [|The Ancient Musical Modes] - Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
 * [|Atonal Set Calculator] - 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.
 * [|Auto-Transposer] - Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
 * [|A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony] - A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
 * [|Bimodalism] - A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
 * [|Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation] - Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
 * [|Chordwizard: How Music Works] - A concise summary of important concepts in music.
 * [|Creativelab] - Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
 * [|Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online] - Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
 * [|Dynamic Spectrograms of Music] - Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
 * [|eMusicTheory.com] - Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
 * [|Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music] - A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
 * [|Essentials of Music Theory] - Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
 * [|The Fugue] - An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
 * [|Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major] - Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
 * [|Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools] - Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
 * [|Gems of Compositional Wisdom] - Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
 * [|Good Ear] - Online ear training site.
 * [|Harmonic Bindings] - A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
 * [|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.
 * [|Interactive Circle of Fifths] - 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.
 * [|Interval and Chord Ear-Training] - This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
 * [|Modes and Scales in Indian Music] - A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
 * [|Music Acoustics] - The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
 * [|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.
 * [|Music Theory] - Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
 * [|Music Theory for the Short Attention Span] - Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
 * [|Music Theory Help Site] - Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
 * [|Music Theory Instruction] - Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
 * [|The Music Theory Minute] - Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
 * [|Music Theory Society of New York State] - 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.
 * [|Music Worksheets] - Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
 * [|The Musical Intervals Tutor] - Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
 * [|The Musical Octave] - Thomas Váczy Hightower's study of musical scales. Discuses the meta-physical properties of music and the creation of musical scales from an acoustic and mathematical perspective.
 * [|Nuottila] - Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
 * [|Pattern Thinking in Music] - Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
 * [|Polytempo Music Articles] - Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
 * [|Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net] - Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
 * [|SchenkerGuide] - An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
 * [|Schoen Musical Notation] - Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
 * [|Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns] - Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
 * [|Simplified Music Chord Theory] - Explains scales and building chords from them.
 * [|Skytopia: Music and Art Aesthetics] - 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.
 * [|Society for Music Theory] - Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
 * [|Solomon's Music Resources] - Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
 * [|Star Theory] - Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
 * [|Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics] - 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.
 * [|Teoria] - Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
 * [|Theory on the Web] - Intermediate music theory review for college students.
 * [|The Tonal Centre] - Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.
 * [|Tonality Guide] - Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
 * [|8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept] - Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
 * [|VCU Music Theory Resources] - Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
 * [|Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony] - Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
 * [|What is Music - Solving a Scientific Mystery] - Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory.
 * [|WholeArts - Music Conservatory] - Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.

[|More Links!]

Index to music theory and history topics [] Freshman theory resources, SMTP [|Capistrano Elementary] Great website from an elementary school which explains all the basic
 * [|Dolmetsch.com/theoryindex]

[|Theory exercises and lessons from Duke]

[|Musicianship Quickfacts] An incredibly concise collection of info for reference

[|Basic Music Test] A practice test similar to our Freshman Theory Placement Test [|Introduction to Music Theory and Aural Skills (a programmed course)]

[|Free Music Theory Workbook]

[|Donald in Mathmagic land Part 1]

[|Donald in Mathmagic Land Part 2] [|Set finder]

[|Matrix generator] [|Basic Rules for Species Counterpoint]

[|Melodic organization and devices] Illustrated with real musi

[|Melodic Contour with listening excerpt]

[|Mozart cells for composition ideas] [|Nonharmonic Tones] Real music examples [|http://www.colleges.org/~music/theory/15N.html] Neighboring tones, escape tones, appoggiaturas in .swf

[|Principles of melody]

[] Decorative pitches (melodic embellishments)

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Nonharmonic tones]

[|How to develop a melody]

[|Nonharmonic tones]

[|Augmentation, diminution, inversion, retrograde]

[|Phrases and cadences]

[|Phrases and cadences]

[|Picardy thirds in flash]

[|Sequences excerpts in flash or pdf] [|Sequence] [|Key signatures and other related fears] [|Scales and modes] Aural recognition in real music

[|Scale degrees] Illustrated in real music

[|Scale degree games]

[|Scales and modes]

[|Build a major scale]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Major scales]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Minor scales]

[|Major & minor scales in classical excerpts]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Scale degrees]

[|Church modes]

[|Octatonic scale]

[|Jazz Keys] Scales and chords on a virtual piano

[|Teoria] Drills in clef reading, intervals, scales, key signatures, chords [|Keyboard] Flash shows staff & octave designation [|Piano Mouse] Online drill to identify notes in bass and treble clef [|Basic notation explained] [|Treble clef flashcards] [|Bass clef flashcards] [|Alto clef flashcards] [|Diagram of genesis of grand staff]

[|Octave registers]

__[|Notecard]__ Free software to download which teaches proficiency in reading notes in both clefs

[|Mensural Notation] [|Modulation Types] A handy table for step-by-step analysis [] [|Modulation by diminished 7th]

[|Modulation by augmented 6ths]

[|Modulation by Neapolitan]

**Miscellaneous** [|Texture] Great page with midi examples for each type [|Texture, aural recognition] Illustrated with real music || [|The Amazing Chord Keyboard] [|Chord Keyboard in minor] [|Chord spelling] [|Chords] Table of chord functions for musical analysis

[|Chord qualities] Illustrated in real music

[|Chord Calculator] [|Suspensions]

[|Figured Bass in a nutshell]

[|Circle progressions]

[|Common chord progressionsl]

[|Harmonic function and progression]

[|Modulation]

[|Chord identification and labeling]

[|Secondary dominants]

[|Secondary dominants, aural recognition] Illustrated in real music

[|Basic rules of harmonic progression]

[|Harmonic progressions]

[|Cadences] Sound files real music illustrate cadence types

[] When to use triads in first inversion

[] When to use triads in second inversion

[|6/4 chords]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Triad inversions]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Diatonic triads]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Intro to Roman Numeral Analysis]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Roman numeral analysis of "Oh Canada"]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Roman numeral analysis of "Auld Lang Syne"]

[] Building chords by intervals - M, m, d, A

[|Mode mixture]

[|Borrowed chords] Hilarious song

[|http://www.colleges.org/~music/theory/mixture.html] Modal mixture and borrowed chords excerpts in .swf

[] Interchanging diatonic chords from the minor scales

[|Augmented 6ths/Neapolitans]

[|Neapolitan 6th explanation and examples]

[] Building Neapolitan chords

[] Using Neapolitan chords

[] Neapolitan analysis - excerpt from Moonlight Sonata

[|http://www.colleges.org/~music/theory/neapolitan.html] Neapolitan examples in .swf, .pdf. & .mov

[] Intro to 7th chords

[] Diatonic 7th chords - analyze each type in a scale

[] 7th Chord Inversions

[|Dominant 7th chords, speed quizzes]

[|Seventh Chords] 7th chord identification drill [|Harmonic dictation] Real music

[|Intervals aural recognition] Illustrated in real music

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Intervals calculated by half-steps]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Intervals, enharmonic mistakes]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: Interval inversions]

[|MusicTheory.net lessons: M, m, d, A intervals]

[|Principles of part-writing]

[|Partwriting] Part-writing Quick Reference Guidelines

[|Voicing chords writing chords in each inversion]

[|Voice-leading]

[|How to Harmonize a melody in 4 parts]

[|Aural recognition of meters] Real music

[|Art Levine rhythms] 2 measure rhythm patterns, Brazilian origin, for rhythm practice or ostinato

[] Hear and identify meters from excerpts

[|Odd meter]

[|Simple/compound meter irregular meter]

[|Simple and compound meter]

[|Binary Form] ||
 * Form**
 * __[|Nuottila]__
 * __[|Nuottila]__

__[|Big Ears]__ Use to drill musical intervals

[|Musictheory.net] Excellent practice in drills and ear-training.

[|Musictheory.net] chord section includes aural drill in recognizing all types of 7th chords (2484!)

[] melodic dictation exercises

[] more melodic dictation || [|Good Ear] On-line ear-training exercises

[|Dictation] Dictation drill in rhythm, bass line and melody

[|Teoria] Ear-training exercises

[|Music/Ear] Midi-based ear-training guide

[|MusicMemoryDevices] List of songs to remember intervals

[|Analytical Listening] || = = ||
 * = **Form - Analysis - Composition** =
 * 

[|Video review of Form Stephen Lias]

[|Quick Guide to Musical Forms Tim Foxon]

[|Sonata form]

[|Theme and variations]

[|Rondo]

[|Fugue]

[|Form]

[|Form basics in order of size of section]

[|Variation and rondo form]

**Analysis** = = [|http://www.hindson.com.au] download a free figured-bass font ||

[|Textures and accompaniment types]

[|Working with young composers]

[|Jazz improvisation Primer] [|10 Technical Blunders Songwriters Make] [] Interactive composition of contemporary sounds

[|Poems] Poems in public domain for lyrics

[|Finale Page] Finale tips and instructions related to specific courses ||