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What are your experiences with self-teaching music theory? You don't have to be a 100% autodidact to answer this question; you probably have had times when you read a book or watched a video to learn some specific idea or technique. Ideally, I'd like to compile some guides for readers who don't have a teacher.

Personally, I prefer close reading of books and articles, but I know that's hardly a universal approach.

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Music Theory Graduate Diagnostic Exams (lemmy.world)

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Many graduate music programs require new students to take a diagnostic exam in music theory. Many institutions offer practice exams on their websites. Since these exams represent the expectation of knowledge and abilities acquired by the end of an undergraduate course in music theory, they can be useful as study guides or for gauging one's own level of attainment. More links will be added to this list in the future.

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Austin Culler: "Improvising Early-Nineteenth Century Guitar Music" (www.youtube.com)

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A thesis lecture on partimento and schema in guitar music, including Rule of the Octave.

Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ad1humm0p24knp2/AACfVw3hQInIOmDxWbgpJIZza?dl=0

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NAETE: Adam Neely is Wrong About…… A LOT (www.youtube.com)

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A YouTube video about Adam Neely's selective presentation on classical musicians' rhythm, bullying of Adam Ragusea and subsequent failure to retract his fallacious claims, and potential plagiarism of Sideways.

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Music Theory Resources (lemmy.world)

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Here is a short list of links for learning music theory and other related skills.

Online textbooks and learning resources

Devore, Richard O; Kulma, David; Naxer, Meghan; Clark, Jason; Kuhns, Krystal. How Music Works: A First-Year Theory Textbook (2nd ed.)
musictheory.net, lessons and exercises for theory and ear training.
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom, an open-access textbook by Robert Hutchinson.
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People, convenient one-page summaries written by Toby Rush, covering freshman and sophomore theory.
Open Music Theory, an open-access online textbook
teoria.com, lessons and exercises for theory and ear training.
Hex Music Theory, YouTube videos, analyses, and supplemental materials for a wide variety of theoretical applications. From popular music to classical, guitar stuff, schema theory, Taneyev-style counterpoint, and more.
Dave Conservatoire, a Khan Academy style website.

Books

Christensen, Lars. The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

Notation software

Other programs

Audio Timeliner, analysis graphing software by Brent Yorgason.

Online Tools

Juicio Brennan's Lyric Hyphenator - Automatically hyphenates lyrics. Saves time when copy-pasting into notation programs.
PC Set-Class Calculator - By David Walters at Mount Alison University.
TrainedEar PC Set-Class Calculator - Another set calculator. Has links to more such tools.
ToneSavvy - Exercises for many normal music theory things, but notable for its first species counterpoint trainer.
Artusi: Counterpoint - A demo of the Artusi software, but it has some exercises in counterpoint up to fourth species with decent error detection.
WesterParse - Westergaardian Species Counterpoint Online - Software based on the counterpoint rules of Peter Westergaard. Not as straightforward as the other counterpoint tools on this list, but certainly more flexible and robust.

YouTube channels

Alan Belkin - classical composition and orchestration
Bill Carmody - Music Theory chapter reviews of "Music in Theory and Practice" by Benward and Saker.
David Newman - ear training and musicianship
Dr. B / Christopher Brellochs - undergraduate theory and ear training
Early Music Sources - counterpoint, Renaissance and Baroque music
En blanc et noir - Partimento, classical improvisation
GUIM - Schenkerian analysis of video game music (VGM)
Jacob Gran - species counterpoint, Schenkerian analysis
Jay Beard Music - atonal, set theory, Scriabin
Jens Larsen - jazz guitar
Kent Hewitt - jazz piano
Metal Music Theory - self-explanatory
Music Matters - ABRSM and undergaduate music theory, as well as various other topics
NAETE - various pop and classical music topics
Orchestration Online - orchestration
The Prog School - progressive rock and metal composition
Ryan Leach - composition, film and video game music (VGM), classical form
Samuel Andreyev - 20th century composition and analysis
Seth Monahan - undergraduate theory
Signals Music Studio - pop and rock music, production
Sideways - various topics, film music
Things I Learned from Barry Harris - jazz guitar
Walk That Bass - jazz piano
8-bit Music Theory - video game music (VGM)
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Welcome to /c/musictheory! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Xenoceratops@lemmy.world to c/musictheory@lemmy.world

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Welcome to our community! I was a moderator and contributor at /r/musictheory on Reddit, and I'm hoping to build a robust place to discuss music theory here. Forums are always difficult to start, but I'm hoping that as more people find Lemmy, they'll discover this community and bring their knowledge, questions, and relevant things to share. If you have any suggestions for this place in the meantime, don't be shy.

Cheers,

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