Curated OER
Counterpoint Activities: Listening and Discussion
Students assess whether or not a piece of music is contrapuntal. In this music education lesson, students listen to various pieces of music and identify whether the music is contrapuntal or not contrapuntal.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Harmony and Counterpoint I
A complete online course on the topic of harmony in music. Resource offers projects and examples, assignments, and exams with solutions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Harmony and Counterpoint Ii
A complete, undergraduate level online class on harmony in music. Resource includes all course materials, projects, examples, assignments and exams with solutions.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Counterpoint for Everyone
Introducing your students to counterpoint is what this lesson is all about. This well written and well organized plan will enable you to teach this musical concept to your class.
San Diego State University
Sd State: Elements of Music: Media, Genre, Form Texture
One of the elements of music is "Texture." This site gives the definition, which basically is the relationship between melodic and harmonic.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Music Theory
Wikipedia offers detailed information on music theory, a set of systems for analyzing, classifying, and composing music and the elements of music.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Smoking Section
Learn various perspectives on the issue of smoking in public places in New York City in this video segment from New York Voices.
Other
Analysis of the C Major Invention (Bwv 772) by Bach
This site is an analysis of this well known Bach invention. Online sound clips enhance the diagrams and text. The site is also available in Spanish.
BBC
Bbc: Music Theory
This resource presents a fun and interactive way to learn all about the elements of music. It offers links to information, definitions, assessments, and examples of melody, harmony and tonality, structure, tempo, metre and rhythm,...
Other
Alan Belkin Music: On Learning Musical Craft
Alan Belkin provides four of his pedagogical booklets about composing music. They discuss fundamental principles of musical composition, counterpoint, orchestration, and harmony. and provide guidance to student composers.