General Resources
This page includes general resources which have broad application across the curriculum. Resources which are specific to a particular topic or lesson can be found on their respective Lessons page; Lessons pages may also contain links to individual portions of the general resources shown below.
Resources
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| 12tone | A Youtube channel featuring graphic videos covering a wide variety of music theory topics. |
| Stefanie Acevedo, "Musical Examples Database" | A set of spreadsheets cataloging musical examples by pedagogically-applicable theory topic. |
| Gene Biringer, "Worksheets for Music Theory Fundamentals" | Worksheets for a wide variety of music theory topics. |
| William E. Caplin, Analyzing Classical Form | Online musical examples supporting Caplin's book on classical music. |
| Chrome Music Lab | Multiple online tools for music and sound visualization. |
| Composers of Color Resource Project | Homepage for a group working to promote music by composers of color. Includes a Humanities Commons database and a Slack channel. |
| Timothy Cutler, Internet Music Theory Database | A collection of scores and audio files illustrating tonal theoretical concepts in classical music. |
| Jeffrey Hass, Introduction to Computer Music | An online textbook covering a wide variety of electronic music topics. |
| How Music Works | A collection of multimedia tutorials covering fundamental music theory concepts. |
| Humanities Commons: Society for Music Theory | Free online pedagogical resources curated by the Society for Music Theory. |
| Humanities Commons: SMT Popular Music Interest Group | Free online pedagogical resources curated by the Society for Music Theory's Popular Music Interest Group. |
| Robert Hutchinson, Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom | An online textbook for undergraduate music theory courses. |
| Institute for Composer Diversity | A site containing resources which promote compositions by people in underrepresented groups, including databases of composers, musical works and other research resources. |
| Internet Music Score Library Project | An expansive collection of musical scores, manuscripts, MIDI files and recordings from across music history. |
| John Paul Ito, Music Theory Website | A collection of online resources covering music theory and aural skills. |
| Phillip Magnuson, Sound Patterns | An online textbook for undergraduate music theory courses written by University of Dayton faculty emeritus Phillip Magnuson |
| Music Theory Examples by Women | A database of musical examples by women composers, searchable by theory concept. |
| Music Theory Online | One of the flagship journals of the Society for Music Theory, published quarterly. |
| Musictheory.net | A site containing many practice drills and tutorials for music theory and aural skills. |
| Robert E. Kelley, Music Theory Tutorials and Reference Materials | Materials covering tonal harmony, sixteenth-century counterpoint, form and analysis, Schenkerian analysis and post-tonal analysis. |
| Asaf Peres, Top 40 Theory | A blog featuring theoretical explorations of popular music. |
| Project Studio Handbook | A collection of videos covering recording and digital media topics. |
| Kenneth R. Rumery, Composers Tools | A collection of articles and examples discussing music composition. |
| Toby W. Rush, Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People | Single-page summaries of music theory topics presented in a graphic, comic-style format. |
| Kris Shaffer and Robin Wharton (editors), Open Music Theory | An open-source, online textbook for undergraduate music theory courses. |
| SMT-V | An open-access video journal for the Society for Music Theory, featuring 3-5 entries per year. |
| Jennifer Sterling Snodgrass, Contemporary Musicianship: Analysis and the Artist | The online component for a print textbook, published by Oxford University Press. |
| Philip Tagg, Everyday Tonality II | A music theory textbook with multiple chapters available as free downloads. |
| Teoria.com | A site containing many practice drills and tutorials for music theory and aural skills. |
| Forrest Tobey, A Feeling for Harmony | An in-progress online music theory textbook. |
| Evan Ware, "Anti-Racist Music Theory Examples" | A spreadsheet cataloging compositions by people in underrepresented populations by pedagogically-applicable theoretical concept. |
| Joe Wolfe, Music Acoustics | A resource containing articles and visualizations of various acoustic concepts. |