Music Theory Links

[Sascha Franck]

Let's keep this thread as clean as possible.
Please post your links, possibly with a comment on what's to find, what is good, what is not so good.

I hope I'll manage to update this post more or less regularly, so all links will be in one place.
I may as well sort them by category, once there's enough links.

I'll start with this for now:

http://www.musictheory.net/index.html
Rather simple layout, nothing too advanced either, but a nice overview of what you may need to get started.

http://www.ravenspiral.com/ravenspiralguide.pdf
Quite a comprehensive guide for a lot of things, possibly too much for one document, plus, personally, I found some of the passages to be not so funny as their possible intention. Yet, quite some fine information in there.

[Sascha Franck]

Someone else *must* have some useful links, no?
I would post some more, but I still need to transfer my older office machine's bookmarks.

[dreamkeeper]

Ok, here's one in german, I found quite helpful:

http://www.justchords.de/index.php

Theory compact and entertaining. Also the articles about bass techniques are very good imho. Lots of additional cool stuff.

[nuffink]

The uber resource - Dolmetsch. It looks a bit whack but scratch the surface and it's more comprehensive and more accurate than anything else out there...

Main page http://www.dolmetsch.com/index.htm
Theory main http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm
Dictionary http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheorydefs.htm

Marc Sabatella's awesome work...

A Jazz Improvisation Primer http://www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer/index.html
and
A Jazz Improvisation Almanac http://www.outsideshore.com/school/musi ... /index.htm

Various others...

A Passion for Jazz http://www.apassion4jazz.net/site_map.html the education section's good

The Tonal Centre http://www.andymilne.dial.pipex.com/index.shtml

Pete Thomas - JAZZ THEORY & IMPROVISATION http://www.petethomas.co.uk/jazz-theory.html

Money Chords http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/moneychords/lesson.html

Hiro's Jazz Theory http://a-no-ne.com/music/theory/

My Stuff - http://www.chordspace.com/Intro.htm

Pitch Class Set Analysis http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts-letters/ ... n/toc.html Where I'm going next - Here be Dragons

[wrench45us]

ok here's the site that opened things up to me for 'extended' chords -- at least give a useful and common way to think about them on guitar or keyboard

http://chrisjuergensen.com.hosting.doma ... ords_2.htm


and a jazz theory site recommended to me
http://www.petethomas.co.uk/jazz-theory.html

and black adder quotes to relieve the learning curve
http://www.zaputa.com/Blackadderweb/Quo ... es_01a.htm

[jivamukti]

This might be obvious for some, but:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:M ... erminology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:M ... techniques

Lots of theoretical articles organised in subcategories. They may not be exhaustive treatments, but are IMO a good starting point for a beginner.

[nuffink]

Here's a weird one http://www.geocities.com/sd_au/clavethe ... heory1.htm

It's an Aussie dance site. It's also the best article I've read on what is arguably the most influential rhythm in modern music - The Clave

[JumpingJackFlash]

Not links on music theory per se, by the following are a list of terms linked to Wiki, which might be a useful reference for anyone who is unclear on what the terms mean:

Accidentals
Augmented chord
Bass note
Cadence
Chord
Chromatic
Diminished chord
Harmonic rhythm
Harmony
Intervals
Inversions
Key
Key signature
Major scale
Minor scale
Modal scales
Non-harmony notes
Note
Phrase
Root
Scale
Semitone
Stave
Tone
Tonic
Triad

[Deric]

Perhaps the above useful post could be moved to a new thread 'Glossary' or similar?

[Sascha Franck]

Hm, let's see. At first I will copy all links to the first post (with credits of course) and probably sort them.
But yeah, a glossary, probably extended by the knowledge of some KVR folks would be nice.

[nuffink]

Hm, let's see. At first I will copy all links to the first post (with credits of course) and probably sort them.

Don't worry about the credits. Keep it clean and simple. Our egos will get over it.

[Toxikator]

BTW one nice thing about MusicTheory.net that no one seems to catch is the ear trainer, which is really quite good.

Also I have their Chord Calculator and Matrix generator .swfs as my background for FLS, it's great having tools like that on-hand.

[gambaytheunspoken]

I've found this site useful in that it covers a wide range of topics, from jazz improvisation, modes, composing, arranging, orchestration as well as writing film scores. http://www.petethomas.co.uk/composition.html
This one speaks for itself http://www.jazztrumpetsolos.com/[/url. ... ellis.com/ Especially useful for jazz standards.
Ciao

[.jon]

Great idea, 2007 will be Year of the Music for me and I plan to learn theory by myself, for free- nice links.

teoría- Music Theory Web: http://teoria.com/ exercises, articles and reference in clear flash lessons from José Rodríguez Alvira.

"Music Theory for Songwriters" by Steve Mugglin http://www.chordmaps.com/ perhaps not better than the other basic theory sites?

and something different: Harmony Central Composition Thread by Jeez

.jon

[Music Engineer]

http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/~bensondj/h ... music.html

great book. freely downloadable as .pdf