Websites about Harmony and Ear Training

 

Written Theory and Aural Skills

1.       www.musictheory.net

2.       www.teoria.com

These websites feature extensive articles on topics in written theory. Ear training tasks often offer a good number of options to limit or widen the palette of possibilities.  Users can download the entirety of musictheory.net for offline convenience and portability.

 

Written Theory

1.       www.emusictheory.com

Interactive lessons about fundamentals with aural examples.  Very basic material.

2.       www.musictheoryresources.com

Brief summaries of theory topics.  Astonishing music theory article database searchable by author, title, composer, and composition with articles from Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, Perspectives of New Music, Music Analysis, IntŽgral, Indiana Theory Review, Theory and PracticeÉbut only up to 1997 or 1998.  Website is incomplete (proposed articles on meter and rhythm) and apparently no longer active. 

3.       www.murraystate.edu/qacd/cfac/music/MUS109entry.htm

4.       www.smu.edu/totw/toc.htm

5.       www.gmajormusictheory.org

These three websites present online materials or even complete courses from some educational institutions.  They include aural examples; gmajormusictheory has ÒrealÓ music.

6.       cnx.org/content/col10208/latest

Music theory presented for the general public.  Quite wordy.  Has a downloadable (PC only) interval ID program, which is rather convenient.  The program only tests intervals melodically (with steel drum sounds).

 

Aural Skills

1.       www.ossmann.com/bigears

Devoted solely to interval ID (melodic only).

2.       www.good-ear.com

Presents a variety of ear training tasks, including harmonic progression ID (multiple choice) and diatonic and chromatic pitch location.  Chord ID is for triads only.

3.       davesmey.com/index.htm

Interval Blaster & Singing Cells PC programs.  Small library of tunes for melodic dictation.

4.       http://www.gmajormusictheory.org/Listening/ListeningIndex.html

5.       http://wwwappsmc.nhmccd.edu/music/eartraining/

Materials created by Gregory Ristow

      

Freeware

1.       GNU Solfege (www.solfege.org)

2.       Take Note (http://home.pacbell.net/jljacobi/tnindex.htm)

Two PC programs with decent coverage of diatonic aural skills.  Set up may be problematic.

3.       http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/win95/EAR_TRAINING/

List of demos, shareware, and freeware aurally-oriented programs

 

Set-Class & 12-Tone Topics

1.       www.webcalc.net/calc/0515.php

2.       http://www.robertkelleyphd.com/12-tone.htm
Set-class calculators and matrix generators.

3.       davesmey.com/index.htm

PC ear training post-tonal aural skills based on Michael FriedmanÕs text.

4.       http://www.music.sc.edu/fs/bain/software.html

Software created by Reginald Bain (University of South Carolina)