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teoria : Music Theory Web

Web site dedicated to the study of Music Theory. Articles, reference, interactive exercises.

musictheory.net - Exercises

Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators.

Music theory for programmers

I can't play an instrument, so I worked out music theory in JavaScript instead. Twelve notes, scales and chords, derived from scratch with code you can hear.

Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory? | Hacker News

Books aside, in my view the #1 thing you can do to help your music theory understanding is to train your ear: if you can't reliably identify all the intervals within an octave and identify major, minor, diminished and augmented triads, as well as the basic 4-note chords (major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, minor-7-flat-5) by ear, knowing a bunch of rules about tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone won't be all that useful. Back in music school days I practised daily with EarMaster and within a couple of months had gotten solid enough at recognising intervals and chords by ear that it made all the other music learning I did subsequently much much easier. I am sure there are way better ear training tools now!

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Worth, Stepney : Growing Music

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Composing Music With Recurrent Neural Networks

Writeup for my first major machine learning project.

Malleable Music Ensembles

A framework using generalized algebraic theories and categorical lenses to enable interoperable, local-first networked music ensembles.

Creativity through Recomposition in the Music Ensemble

Musical creativity is an essential component of a robust music education. There are many ways to invite and develop the creative capacities of K–12 music students. In this article, we propose the idea that recomposing within and around repertoire can be a creative starting point for student composition in an ensemble music classroom. We share examples of potential recomposition projects, questions to prompt student reflection, and other pedagogical considerations as a springboard for compositional projects with students. We hope that the open-ended nature of this mindset will encourage more creative musical spaces.

Speaking of Music

“Can anyone explain in mere prose the wonder of one note following or coinciding with another so that we feel that it is exactly how those notes had to be? Of course not.”

The power of community learning

It's easy to imagine that some things have to be the way they've always been. That music has to be delivered on a round platter. That an overnight stay needs to be in a hotel. And that le…

Ordinary Notes

Check out Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe on Bookshop.org UK!

The Knowledge Ecology

The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge and edification is not in the computer. The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. Yes? No? Yes-no-yes-no-yes-no.

What is Music? Music Generates Feelings That Are Only Weakly Bound To The Music

Here I use the word "bound" in the same sense as "bind" in the "binding problem".