This website presents a new, highly effective and comprehensive phrase-based approach to jazz improvisation, with an emphasis on the language of bebop.

Online ear training exercises for all levels, including free trial exercises.

Web site dedicated to the study of Musical Theory. Articles, books, interactive exercises, software. Teoria musical. Articulos, libros, ejercicios y programas ...

Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory on CD-ROM! Music theory lessons, right from the beginning, with video instruction! Learn how to write scales, chords, triads, etc.

Includes several animated music theory lessons. Also includes utilities for ear training and improving musicianship.

The series of articles below is part of the syllabus for Jazz Improvisation courses MUS 331 and 530 at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

SchenkerGUIDE.com aims to explain both the practical basics and the rationale behind Schenkerian analysis and Schenker's influential and controversial theory of tonal music.

The Online, Free Ear Training on the Net.

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Website of the Huygens-Fokker Foundation, centre for microtonal music.

Welcome to the Boethius Server at UC Santa Barbara Welcome to the Web site for the Society for Music Theory. Have you joined SMT yet If not, do it today! ...

Welcome to the Music Theory Department at the Indiana University School of Music. The department consists of nine faculty members with diverse specialties.

The Tonal Centre is an interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.

Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony Table of Contents Introduction Remarks and acknowledgements Basic concepts Pythagorean tuning and Gothic polyphony Simple vertical intervals Ideal fifths and fourths Active thirds and sixths Milder major seconds and minor sevenths Coloristic harmony Stable trines (8/5, 8/4) The split fifth (5/3) Quintal/quartal sonorities (9/5, 5/4, 5/2, 7/4) Cadential ...

All Books Journals E-Editions The Press Music Theory Spectrum is now online! Access recent issues or purchase articles Music Theory Spectrum Editor: Daniel Harrison Music Theory Spectrum is the official print journal of the Society for Music Theory. It features articles and book reviews on all topics that intersect with music theory and analysis, such as aesthetics, the history of theory, linear ...

Historic music tuning problem described and solution provided with Pitch Palette software tunes a microtunable synthesizer to just intonation, world scales, historic scales and user scales in real time.

Introduction This site has been set up to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in tonal music. It is based on research into chord progressions which reveals structures similar to those in natural language. If this is your first visit then I suggest you view the Demo and Example pages after reading the Test Page first. This site now contains a Bibliography and ...

Overview of historical temperaments on keyboard instruments ...

Bibliography containing references to literature about musical tuning, temperament, scales, microtonality and intonation with links to relevant sites ...

Excel spreadsheet that analyzes keyboard temperaments: gives beat rates for tuning, and harmonic-tension charts in all keys.

Alternate Temperaments: Theory and Philosophy (The beginner's field guide to alternate temperaments) Introduction Very, very brief history Circle of fifths and the harmonic series Do the Math... The Comma Why equal temperament Why study alternate temperaments My temperament analysis project Analysis of historic temperaments Footnotes Merchandise! DISCLAIMER INTRODUCTION: Are you feeling just a ...

Star Theory Basic text in music theory and orchestration Open the Book Book 1: Pitch Book 2: Chords Book 3: Time -------------------------------------------------- Take-home Video Lessons Musical Instruments Reference Lessons 1-1 online Maestro Joe Paparone Acres of chord progression standards won't show you how to create your own. The great superstar arrangers Nelson Riddle, Mancini and Don ...

Nicks pages about his music and whatnot. Contains rhythm exercises, drum lessons, gear, and news.

An Introduction to Historical Tunings By Kyle Gann 1. Tuning in Pre-20th Century Europe 2. Meantone Tuning 3. Werckmeister III and Bach's W.T.C. 4. Well Temperament and 18th-Century Music 5. A Word about Pythagorean Tuning 6. Conclusion Just Intonation - a whole other subject 1. Tuning in Pre-20th Century Europe Those who attack equal temperament, the tuning of our modern pianos - as I do on my ...

Music Theory Page for ChordWizard - a powerful software tool for working with chords for guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele and other instruments ...

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Theory of Music - resources for teaching and learning beginner to AB Grade 5 (Ted Kirk's Theory of Music Workshop details and prices) Associated Board Theory Syllabus Associated Board Publications Theory online with Ricci Adams Theory online with Teoria Gary Ewer's Easy MusicTheory online Reviews - Teoria (program), Music Theory Online, First Steps in MusicTheory (AB handbook) TED'S MUSIC ...

Tantrum: A Tool for the Study of Temperament Anomalies Download tantrum.sea.hqx (60K) -- Macintosh freeware Go to Music Animation Machine main page Send us email Tantrum Description Because musical pitch classes repeat at the octave, the gamut of pitch classes may be conveniently arrayed around a circle. Where, precisely, on the circle should the pitch classes be placed in order to accurately ...

A new school of harmony in 20th century music. First developed as a recognizable system in the 1950s by the composer Enrique Ubieta, Bimodalism is a modern alternative to atonal and other progammatic styles of composition. The essence of the harmonic discipline of Bimodalism lies in the simultaneous blending of major and minor modes in triads with the same fundamental root.

Brief outline of the basic music notations.

The fugue, an outline of the substantials of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's 'Foundation Studies in Fugue'. Topics include subject, countersubject, answer, etc.

Links to music theory resources.

The Basics of Reading Music - By Kevin Meixner, a free online tutorial that will teach you the basics of how to read sheet music ...

WholeARTS Music Conservatory Introductory Dialogue For All Courses in Music Theory and Composition Power Spelling for Musicians (First read this page through, and then click on the links to study related terms.) Sitting under the Bodhi tree one summer afternoon, Pantha looked up and saw the Master of Music walking down the path. There was so much that she wanted to ask the Master, so much that ...

WELCOME TO THE WORLD SCALE DEPOSITORY AT THIS STAGE, WE ARE IN THE BEGINNING STAGE OF ASSEMBLING A WORLD BANK OF SCALES. OUR CONCERN IS MASSING TOGETHER THE RAW DATA OF DIFFERENT TUNINGS FOUND AROUND THE WORLD. IT IS A TASK BEYOND THE CAPABILITIES OF EVEN A HOST OF VOLUNTEERS AND RELIES ON THOSE AT LARGE TO AUGMENT OUR OWN RESEARCH WITH SUBMISSIONS. SUCH SUBMISSIONS ARE INDISPENSABLE IF SUCH A ...

This paper explores the use of simple ratios to tune musical intervals and chords. Included are a tutorial, a set of computer programs, and a re-tuned two-part invention by J.S. Bach.

Press play for Albeniz' Aragon from his Suite Espanola. Comparison of Temperaments Below is a table comparing various temperaments, including Equal Temperament, Pythagorean, another natural tuning, two mean-tone tunings, several Well temperaments, two Indian tunings, two Persian tunings. The discussion is carried out using the key of C as example. By compare, I mean with respect to using - say - ...