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8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept - http://www.jazcraft.net/8tone.html Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.

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.

A-Natural Atonality - http://www.greenwych.ca/atonal.htm Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.

Abacci Music Lessons - http://www.abacci.com/music/lessons/default.asp Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.

Analysis of Masterpieces - http://www.geocities.jp/musikanalyse/eng/text/textE.html Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.

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.

Auto-Transposer - http://www.autotransposer.com/ Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.

Bimodalism - http://www.ubieta.com/bimodalism/ A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.

Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation - http://www.freewebs.com/gustavsphinx/ Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.

Chordwizard: How Music Works - http://www.chordwizard.com/theory.html A concise summary of important concepts in music.

Creativelab - http://creativelab.kiev.ua/ Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.

Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online - http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.

Dynamic Spectrograms of Music - http://nastechservices.com/Spectrograms.html Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.

eMusicTheory.com - http://www.emusictheory.com/ Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.

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.

Essentials of Music Theory - http://musictheory.redzeppelin.org/ Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.

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

Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools - http://www.kunstderfuge.com/theory.htm Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.

Gems of Compositional Wisdom - http://www.cosmoedu.net/DoctorFields/ Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.

Good Ear - http://www.good-ear.com/ Online ear training site.

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.

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.

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.

Interval and Chord Ear-Training - http://www.auralskills.com/ 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 - http://chandrakantha.com/articles/scales.html A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.

Music Acoustics - http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/ The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.

Music Theory - http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/lennon/23/theory.html Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.

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 for the Short Attention Span - http://www.folkblues.com/theory/ Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.

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.

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 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.

Music Worksheets - http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/worksheets.htm Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.

Nuottila - http://www.nuottila.info/2007/ Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]

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.

Polytempo Music Articles - http://www.greschak.com/polytempo/ Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.

Rhythm Exercises - http://www.izap.com/~pinnacle/rhythms/ Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.

Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - http://www.musictheory.net/ Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.

SchenkerGuide - http://www.schenkerguide.com/ An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.

Schoen Musical Notation - http://www.illuschoen.net/sn/sn.htm Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.

Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns - http://www.rhythm-patterns.narod.ru/ Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.

Simplified Music Chord Theory - http://www.rpsoft2000.com/rps_chordtheory.htm Explains scales and building chords from them.

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.

Society for Music Theory - http://www.societymusictheory.org/ Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.

Solomon's Music Resources - http://solomonsmusic.net/ Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.

Star Theory - http://www.musicarrangers.com/star-theory/ Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.

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.

Teoria - http://www.teoria.com/ Includes software, books, exercises, and links.

The Ancient Musical Modes - http://www.pathguy.com/modes.htm Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.

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."

The Music Theory Minute - http://www.musictheoryminute.com/ Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.

The Musical Intervals Tutor - http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/ Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.

The Musical Octave - http://home22.inet.tele.dk/hightower/ 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.

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.

Theory on the Web - http://www.smu.edu/totw/toc.htm Intermediate music theory review for college students.

Tonality Guide - http://www.tonalityguide.com/ Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.

VCU Music Theory Resources - http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bhammel/theory/resources/index.html Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony - http://www.geocities.com/yaaarrrgg/music/ Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.

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.

WholeArts - Music Conservatory - http://www.wholarts.com/music/ed/intro.htm Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.

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