San Diego State University
Ritardondo
Played in the style of "UNO," this music card game is suitable for students in their second year of music theory for piano. The game's purpose is to identify musical key signatures and their respective primary chords and will be able to...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Listen to Balinese Gamelan: Beginner's Guide
A music-theory-type introduction to the gamelan music of Bali, Indonesia.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Cadence
Read about the musical term cadence and its importance in music and dance. Includes a description of the four main types of cadences in modern music theory and other definitions of cadence at this site.
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University: Sojurn: How to Analyze a Fugue
This page is very helpful in analyzing and understanding fugues. Great site for music theory students and teachers.
Northern Arizona University
Sojurn: Introduction to the Art of Fugue
An extremely comprehensive and detailed page on fugues, including audio clips and many illustrations. Gets very technical so a good background in music theory would be useful if you use this site.
Other
Compositional Inspiration
Without going into specifics, this article provides general ideas on how to begin writing your own music. A few of the ideas discussed are recording yourself playing around, learn a new scale or pattern, and apply some new music theory...
Other
Federal Focus Jazz Band: Traditional Jazz Style Guide
A stylistic breakdown and analysis of traditional jazz. Distinguishes between the different types of this unique genre.
Other
Ed Web: Mi the Theory
This site contains information on multiple intelligences, and touches on all seven postulated in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Modes and Ragas
To summarize the modes and ragas in music and their use in many musical traditions
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Scales That Are Not Major or Minor
To explain the various musical scales that cannot be classified as major or minor such as chromatic, whole-tone, pentatonic, blues, and scales from non-Western music
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Musical Notation Dots and Ties
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart demonstrates how dots and ties work in music.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Musical Notation Rests
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses musical rests and includes sound files to identify the notated measure.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Consonance and Dissonance
To describe the concept of consonance and dissonance and their affects on music
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Octaves and the Major Minor Tonal System
To introduce the relationship between frequency, octaves, major, minor, and chormatic scales, and tonal music
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Powers, Roots, and Equal Temperament
To provide an overview of roots and powers in music and the frequency relationships in equal temperament
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Music Scales
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes how to construct scales in music.
Other
Ruby Cliff Computing: Learn Guitar Theory With Virtualoso Guitar
This is a fantastic site that teaches basic music reading, especially as related to the guitar. Although the site is a promotional software site, the trial version is excellent by itself.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Dance Theory and Composition
This resource provides information and sources that discuss the elements of dance.
Other
Homeric Singing: An Approach to the Original Performance
A short, but intersting site that explains the theory as to how the ancient Greeks may have performed their music.
Other
Analysis of Bach's G Minor Fugue (Bwv 861)
This site is an analysis of Bach's G minor fugue. Also available in Spanish.
Other
Harmonic Analysis of Debussy's Prelude La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (Book I,viii)
A fine analysis of this Debussy prelude. Diagrams and text are easy to understand. The online sound clips are a plus! Site also available in Spanish.
Other
Saxlessons
The complete saxophone resource. Students are guided through lessons. Also, a wealth of information about the saxophone.
Other
Vic Firth: Educator's Resource Library
This website is a cornucopia of resources for percussion instruction. There are videos, audiocasts, podcasts, interviews with talented percussionists. Please check out this website is you are interested in any aspect of percussion.
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