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Music Theory Resources: These are sites that the guild recommends as being useful for enhancing the musician's general knowledge and compositional skills. Please feel free to email your comments and suggestions for additional links. Thanks.
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| Bandfolio.com: Description: BandFolio is a project developed by music educators and other interested parties to aid teachers and students by providing free resources and aiding the exchange of information and materials. We encourage the submission of compositions, reference and other resources relating to Music Education. Further information can be found on our Submissions page. We also invite all those interested in music to participate in the discussions on our Bulletin Board and in future forums. The resources available on this site are free to all who wish to use them. Additional guidelines for use of these resources are available on our Terms & Conditions page.
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| Electronic Music Interactive:
Description: Students taking "Music Theory I" must be able to read and write basic notation of pitch and rhythm; to understand concepts such as tempo, meter, timbre, dynamics, and transposition; to know major and minor scales, key and time signatures; and to spell major and minor triads. Nevertheless, when students begin their studies of electronic music they often find the subject dense and opaque. While teaching electronic music I discovered that a true beginning electronic music text did not exist. Good texts that taught music fundamentals were readily available but no publisher offered the equivalent for electronic music. Many books for the beginner presuppose a working knowledge of sophisticated mathematics or computer programming, a background which many traditionally-trained musicians do not possess. Other texts are too "narrow-cast," concerned only with a single system of making music, resulting in material that is not necessarily applicable to all systems.
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| Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory:
Description: This online course is FREE, it's EASY, and is designed to give you some rudimentary knowledge of the basic concepts of music. There is no registration, no logging in, no passwords or user names... All you need is an interest in how music works.
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| Greek Esoteric Music Theory Charts:
Description: A collection of annotated and cross-linked charts to aid the use of Ancient Greek Music for esoteric purposes.
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| Jack Herrington's Ultimate Chord Book - Music Theory:
Description: This Music Theory primer is meant to introduce you to the fundamental principles of chord and scale construction. This will allow you to understand what the Universal Chord Book is doing for you when it searches for chords and scales on the guitar.
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| Java Music Theory (Musical Tutorials):
Description: Tutorials are available with or without audio capabilities.The silent tutorials have fewer options but download much faster.
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| Klezmer Music Theory:
Description: Highlights some of the theoretical features of this distinctly Jewish type of music.
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| Music Theory:
Description: Every musician needs to know the basics of music theory. Here you can learn about note reading, intervals, scales, and much more.
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| Music Theory for Songwriters:
Description: One of the biggest mountains can be described this way. Let's say we're writing a song. First we choose a key. Now here comes the mountain. Which chords are available in this key... and how do they flow from one to another in ways that sound good?
These questions are very easy to ask, but it took me years to understand what I wanted to know. Now I can explain some of what seemed mysterious to me then. If you are asking questions like these, this web site may help you to understand more quickly. Have fun!
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| Music Theory Online:
Description: Music Theory Online (MTO) is the refereed, electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory, Inc.. Published several times each year, each issue includes features such as articles, book reviews, and reports from a distinguished panel of International Correspondents. In addition, MTO publishes announcements of upcoming conferences and calls for papers, a list of job opportunities, abstracts of recently completed and in-progress dissertations, and summaries of recently published books.
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| Practical Music Theory: Description: Web site dedicated to the study of music theory.
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