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

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

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

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

Atonal Set Calculator  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  www.autotransposer.com Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.

A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony  www.standingstones.com/modeharm.html A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music  www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/music A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.

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

The Fugue  musik.freepage.de/cpb7079/inhalt.html An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."

Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major  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  www.kunstderfuge.com/theory.htm Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.

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

Good Ear  www.good-ear.com Online ear training site.

Harmonic Bindings  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  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  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  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  chandrakantha.com/articles/scales.html A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.

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

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

Music Theory for the Short Attention Span  www.folkblues.com/theory Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.

Music Theory Help Site  www.wmich.edu/mus-history/TheoryHelp/TheoryHelp.html Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.

Music Theory Instruction  www.angelfire.com/music5/theory Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.

The Music Theory Minute  www.musictheoryminute.com Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.

Music Theory Society of New York State  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  www.musicatschool.co.uk/worksheets.htm Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.

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

The Musical Octave  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.

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

Pattern Thinking in Music  www.seepatts.com Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Skytopia: Music and Art Aesthetics  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  www.societymusictheory.org Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.

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

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

Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics  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  www.teoria.com Includes software, books, exercises, and links.

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

The Tonal Centre  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.

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

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

VCU Music Theory Resources  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  www.geocities.com/yaaarrrgg/music Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.

What is Music - Solving a Scientific Mystery  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  www.wholarts.com/music/ed/intro.htm Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.