Theory and Analysis Resources

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Theory and Analysis Resources:

General and Comprehensive Sites
• Canadian Music Centre
• Society for Music Theory
• Music Theory Online
• Society for Music Analysis website
• Music Analysis Inventory: Search Service [alternate] (Society for Music Theory)
  • Music Analysis Inventory [alternates: 1; 2]
• Solomon's Music Theory & Composition Resources (Larry Solomon)
  • Solomon Web Essays and Analyses
  • Music Theory & Analysis
  
  Specialized Sites
• Review and Discussion of A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (Alan Ruttenberg)
• Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi (Dictionary of Medieval Latin Musical Terminology to the End of the 15th Century) [with bibliographies]
• Rhythm and Meter: A Bibliographic Glossary [School of Music at Indiana University]
  • Glossary [an excellent and extensive dictionary of terminology]
  • Bibliography
• Bibliography of Consonance and Dissonance [Ohio State University, School of Music, Music 829B, David Huron]
  Free Atonality
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  Serialism: 12-Tone Method; Integral Serialism
• Information Sheets [Lawrence W. Hartzell, Conservatory of Music, Baldwin Wallace College, Music 415, Lecture Resources] [an extensive set of information sheets with material concerning methods and individual composers]
• The Serial System of Composition
  A great deal of information on serial techniques (including those of integral serialism). It also includes a number of quotation by various composers using the techniques.
• Tone Row Music and Serialism
  A short definition of integral (or total) serialism. Some points about integral serialism taken from an article by Stockhausen.
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928- )
  A brief biography of Karlheinz Stockhausen and his works.
• Oliver Messiaen (1908 - 1992)
  A short biography and listing of works by Messiaen.

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• Milton Babbitt
  A biography of Milton Babbitt.
• Integral Serialism and the Rise of the International Avant-garde
  Influencial composers in the movement towards integral serialism.
• An essay on patterns in musical composition transformations, mathematical groups, and the nature of musical substance.
  General informations on compositional techniques; including integral serialism.
  Set Theory
• Solomon's Music Theory & Composition Resources (Larry Solomon)
  • Solomon Web Essays and Analyses
  • Music Theory & Analysis
• All About Set Theory [alternate URL; Jay Tomlin]
  • Java Set Theory Machine
• A Brief Introduction to Pitch-Class Set Analysis [Gary Tucker, Mount Allison University Department of Music]
• Set Theory Calculator [(fast, on-line set determination) Stephen Andrew Taylor, Illinois State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Music]

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  • SetFinder: [Forte primes]
  • SetFinder: Solomon Prime Form [alternate address]
• Set Theory [introductory survey]
  • Glossary for Set Theory

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Schenkerian Analysis
• SchenkerGUIDE [Tom Pankhurst (tompankhurst @ schenkerguide.com)]
• Schenkerian Analysis [David Walker, McMaster University]
• Introduction to Schenker Analysis [Henry Klumpenhouwer]
• UCR Library Heinrich Schenker Collection [Special Collections Library, University of California, Riverside Library]
• The Oster Collection: Papers of Heinrich Schenker [Marilyn Patton, University of North Texas Libraries]
• Music 701, McMaster University Course Site:
  • Course Page
    • Music 701: Reading List
    • Music 701: Resources [alternate URL] [links]
  • Instructor's page [Dr. William Renwick]:
    • William Renwick (homepage)
    Student Course Pages:
  • Sandra Ramunno's Home Page
  • Alex's Page: Music 701...
  • Brian Milligan's Homepage
  • Irene's World
  • Melissa's Home Page
  • Simon's Theory & Analysis Home Page!!

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• MUS 874, Schenkerian Analysis [Bruce Campbell, Michigan State University Course Site]
  • Quotations from the Works of Heinrich Schenker
  Other Articles concerning Schenkerian Analysis
• Schenkerian Analysis and Popular Music [Cristóbal L. García Gallardo]
• Modern psycho-acoustics and its impact on Schenkerian analysis [K C Moore]

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Automatic Music Analysis
• Automatic Music Analysis References
  Semiotic Analysis

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• Semiotics for Beginners [Daniel Chandler, University of Wales, Aberystwyth]
  • Contents Page
  • Semiotics Links
  Collections of Articles (online)
• McMaster Music Analysis Colloquium [alternate] [Published by the graduate students of the M.A. Music Criticism Programme, McMaster University, General Editor: William Renwick]
• Solomon's Music Theory & Composition Resources (Larry Solomon) [an extensive collection of analytical essays]
  • Solomon Web Essays and Analyses
  • Music Theory & Analysis
  Individual Articles (online)
• Norman Douglas Anderson, Aspects of Early Major-Minor Tonality: Structural Characteristics of the Music of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University
• Llorenç Balsach, "Application of virtual pitch theory in music analysis", [from] JNMR (Journal of New Music Research), 1997 - Issue Number 3.
• Ian Cross, "Music Analysis and Music Perception", [from] Music Analysis, 1998, vol 17. No.1.
• Patricia M. Ranum, Musings on 17th-century French Song (and Speech) [At: The Musicological Musings of Patricia M. Ranum]
  Analysis Software
• Computer-Assisted Music Analysis, Useful Links [Nico Schuler, Central Michigan University]
• Software Tools for Music Theory and Analysis [Dr. Stephen Cronin (s.cronin @ mailbox.gu.edu.au) & Dr. Peter Castine (pcastine @ bek.no), Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University]

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• The Melisma Music Analyzer [Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator & David Temperley]
  Articles with Practical Tips (online)
• Computer Music Analysis and Review [Professor Howard Fredrics, Department of Music, Brown University]
• Music Analysis [Dr. Gary Tucker, Music Department, Mount Allison University]
• Research in music analysis [Judith Bowman]

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• Suggestions for Formal Analysis [Solomon's Music Theory & Composition Resources (Larry Solomon)]

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Tuning and Temperament:

• Understanding Temperaments [Pierre Lewis]
  1. Introduction
  2. Equal temperament
  3. Pythagore's tuning
  4. Just intonation
  5. Regular temperaments
  6. Irregular temperaments
  7. References
• JavaTuner ["This Java applet demonstrates various historical tunings and temperaments and allows one to experiment with them." Pierre Lewis]

Online Information on Specific Subjects:

• CHARM: The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, University of Southampton
• Eyeneer Music Archives ("an educational archival site that seeks to make comprehensive information about music publicly available")
  • International Music Archives
    • Musical Instruments of the World
    • Music of the World
  • Contemporary Classical Music Archives: Composers [biographies (with portraits) & discographies of leading twentieth-century composers, along with a glossary of terms encountered within the biographies]
  • American Music Archives
  • New Jazz Archives
  • Definitive Eyeneer Archives
• Renaissance Music Notation from the mid-16th century-Transcribing and Reading White Mensural Notation
• The Woodwind Fingering Guide [numerical charts with "over 1800 fingerings" for Flute, Clarinet, Recorder, Saxophone, Oboe, Bassoon]

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Genre Studies

• The Baroque Concerto [The Internet Public Library, The Baroque Age (Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian, The Juilliard School, New York)]
• Musical Forms: Fugue (Classical Music Pages [Matt Boynick]) [brief description from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music]
• Baroque music for the harpsichord [The Internet Public Library, The Baroque Age (Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian, The Juilliard School, New York)]

Composers

• Canadian Music Centre
  Composer Biographies
• The Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach
  (Dr. Tim Smith, Associate Professor Music Theory, School of Performing Arts, Northern Arizona University)
  [A very extensive site concerning the lives and works of many composers: J.S. Bach and other Baroque and Classical Era Composers.] The following is only a selection of the resources available at this site.
  • Glossary [Brief definitions of an extensive variety of Baroque terms]
  • Anatomy of a Fugue [Rudimentary introduction to Fugal Analysis (with, unfortunately, very few musical examples; though with overall good explanation and terminology definitions).]
  • Fugues of the Well Tempered Clavier [Analysis of selected fugues]
    • c minor Fugue, Well Tempered Clavier Book I
    • c-sharp minor Fugue, Well Tempered Clavier Book I
    • E-Flat Major Fugue, Well Tempered Clavier Book II

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  • How to Analyze a Fugue
  • Miscellaneous Bach Analyses
    • Canon
    • Two- and Three-Part Inventions (chorale motet, chorale fantasia, chorale variations, chorale partita, chorale fugue, or chorale cantata)
    • Cantus Firmus Technique (chorale motet, chorale fantasia, chorale variations, chorale partita, chorale fugue, or chorale cantata)
  • J. S. Bach: Education & Career
  • The Bach Family
    • Bach Family Tree [with links to individual members]
  • The Baroque Ideal
    • Doctrine of Affections
    • Basso Continuo
    • Rameau & Fux
  • Essays
    • Bach's Mass in B Minor as Musical Icon
  • Dictionary of Bach Contemporaries [Mini-Bios:]
• J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier performed on MIDI (S. D. Rodrian) [possibly useful for analysis]

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