8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept: Information with exhibits and mp3 files on The 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept, a special study into the diminished, introducing the "diminished-major" and its application for mainstream jazz players, advanced improvisators, and notational composers.
A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony: A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
A-Natural Atonality: Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
Analysis of Masterpieces: Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
Auto-Transposer: Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
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 colors. 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.
FolkBlues.Com - Music Theory for the Short Attention Span: Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
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 Janeãek'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.
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 Instruction: Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
Musica Theoria: Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
MusicArrangers.com - Star Theory: Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
Olav Torvund's Guitar Pages - Music Theory: A series of lessons on practical music theory applied to guitar.
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 a comprehensive annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
Rhythm Exercises: Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm. By Nick Marshall.
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.
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.
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.
The Ancient Musical Modes: Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
The Basics of Reading Music: Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner.
The Fugue: An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
The Method Behind the Music: A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
The Music Theory Minute: Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
The Musical Intervals Tutor: Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
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.
Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony: Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony. [Requires Flash 4+]
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. Download available.
WholeArts - Music Conservatory: Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.
