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• Arts: Music: Musicology  (188)

• Abacci Music Lessons - Music theory lessons with accompanying MIDI files.
• Analysis of Masterpieces - Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
• A-Natural Atonality - Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
• The Ancient Musical Modes - Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
• Atonal Set Calculator - 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 - Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
• The Basics of Reading Music - Online tutorial by Kevin Meixner.
• A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony - A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
• Bimodalism - A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
• Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation - Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
• Chordwizard: How Music Works - A concise summary of important concepts in music.
• Creativelab - Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
• Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online - Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
• Dynamic Spectrograms of Music - Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
• eMusicTheory.com - Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
• Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music - A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
• Essentials of Music Theory - Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
• The Fugue - An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
• Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major - 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 - Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
• Gems of Compositional Wisdom - Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
• Good Ear - Online ear training site.
• Harmonic Bindings - A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
• 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 - 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 - This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
• The Method Behind the Music - A resource for music theory, music history, the physics of musical sound, and conducting.
• Modes and Scales in Indian Music - A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
• Music Acoustics - The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
• Music Theory - 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 - Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
• Music Theory for the Short Attention Span - Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
• Music Theory Help Site - Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
• Music Theory Instruction - Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
• The Music Theory Minute - Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
• Music Theory Society of New York State - 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 - Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
• Musica Theoria - Offers explanation of chords, scales, harmony, tuning systems, counterpoint. Also provides links to ear training sites, news groups and history.
• The Musical Intervals Tutor - Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
• The Musical Octave - 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 - Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
• Pattern Thinking in Music - Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
• Polytempo Music Articles - Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
• Rhythm Exercises - Notation for drills, rudiments and etudes for practicing rhythm.
• Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
• SchenkerGuide - An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
• Schoen Musical Notation - Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
• Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns - Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
• Simplified Music Chord Theory - Explains scales and building chords from them.
• Skytopia: Music and Art Aesthetics - 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 - Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
• Solomon's Music Resources - Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
• Star Theory - Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
• Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics - 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 - Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
• Theory on the Web - Intermediate music theory review for college students.
• The Tonal Centre - 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 - Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
• 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept - Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
• VCU Music Theory Resources - Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
• Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony - Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
• What is Music - Solving a Scientific Mystery - Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory.
• WholeArts - Music Conservatory - Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.

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• Tuning and Temperament Bibliography   - Extensive list of print books, magazines, and journal articles on tuning systems.

• Alternate Temperaments: Theory and Philosophy - Introduction to tuning systems, based on the Western cents system. Written by Terry Blackburn.
• The Argument for Equal Temperament - Fred Lerdahl's paper regarding the use of equal temperament over just tuning.
• Comparison of Temperaments - Table comparing various Western and Non-Western temperaments.
• The Development of Musical Tuning Systems - The historical development of musical tuning systems from ancient Greek origins to the development of equal temperament.
• Dictionary of Microtonal Music Theory - Dictionary of common terms used in just tuning and equal temperament style tunings.
• Equal Temperament Tuning - An introduction to equal temperament for guitarists who have problems tuning their guitars.
• Historical Tuning - Includes information on the differences between equal temperament and well temperament and why Bach rejected equal temperament and celebrated well temperament.
• Historical Tunings on the Modern Concert Grand - Tradational tunings of the grand piano and Beethoven's specific tunings.
• An Introduction to Historical Tunings - Discusses the development of tuning systems in Medieval Europe.
• Justonic Tuning Inc. - Pitch Palette software tunes a microtunable synthesizer to just intonation, world scales, historic scales and user scales in real time.
• Keyboard temperament analyzer/calculator - Excel spreadsheet that analyzes keyboard temperaments: gives beat rates for tuning, and harmonic-tension charts in all keys.
• Larpis.com - Previously unknown temperament found on the autograph title page of the "Well-Tempered Clavier"; published 2005. Includes explanations and links to scholarly articles.
• Musical Tunings and Temperaments - Color-coded descriptions of tunings and temperaments from the 9th Century through the 16th Century.
• Pitch and Scale of the Great Highland Bagpipe - Describes proper tunings and scale construction for the Great Highland Bagpipe.
• Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony - Article by Margo Schulter written in 1998.
• Tantrum - Tool for the study of temperament anomalies.
• A Tour Up The Harmonic Series - Basic introduction to the Pythagorean circle of fifths and the physical basis for the need for alternative tuning systems.
• Tuning by Ratios - 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.
• Understanding Temperaments - Tunings used for harpsichords.
• World Scale Depository - Construction of a reference center of scale measurements throughout the world.

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