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. |
| Gene Biringer, Worksheets for Music Theory Fundamentals | Worksheets for a wide variety of music theory topics. |
| Chrome Music Lab | Multiple online tools for music and sound visualization. |
| Forrest Tobey, A Feeling for Harmony | An in-progress online music theory textbook. |
| 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. |
| Robert Hutchinson, Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom | An online textbook for undergraduate music theory courses. |
| 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 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. |
| Joe Wolfe, Music Acoustics | A resource containing articles and visualizations of various acoustic concepts. |