The Good Musician

Music theory final exams coming up?

by csnowden on April 22nd, 2008

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Here are a couple of sites that will help you drill for those end-of-year theory finals. These sites are free.

The Music Theory Minute is a super guide to the fundamentals of music theory, demonstrated in one minute tutorials. Features video/voice-over clips of Dr. Jack modeling the lesson. You’ll hear what a diminished chord sounds like, as well as see how it is constructed.

Western Michigan University School of Music offers a no-frills theory site that contains two rhythmic training programs you can download: Diktus allows you to practice one- and two-part rhythmic dictation and sightreading, and InTactus is a rhythmic training program for measuring the performance of one- and two-part rhythm.

There’s even a flash-animated metronome, if you’ve misplaced yours.

Music Theory Online is the refereed, electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory, Inc., and a good resource for scholarly articles, criticism, research, and commentary–great for those end-of-term papers.

There are even music education video games for learning music, including ear training, for students of all ages.

Ricci Adam’s Musictheory.net is chock full of lessons, trainers, and utilities, including a staff generator (blank, piano, SATB, and custom) to print your own staff paper, a matrix generator, and a chord calculator.

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