Good Online Music Theory Lessons, Practice and Utilities
MusicTheory.net is an excellent resource for the beginner, intermediate or even more advanced student of music. The site is run by Ricci Adams and there’s even a downloadable offline version of the site. The exercises and lessons are all flash based, so as long as you have a flash enabled browser you should be able to take part in this. The lessons start out simple, talking about the clefs and the notes on the staff, rests and various meters, then they progress to learning about intervals, scales, key signatures, chords, roman numeral notation, seventh chords, a study of composing with minor scales, circle progression, phrases and ultimately neopolitan chords. There are a variety of exercises such as
Note, Key, interval and triad trainers, keyboard, guitar and brass trainers even several ear trainers focused on interval, chord quality and scale recognition.
There’s also a chord calculator, staff paper generator and matrix generator.
This last item, the matrix generator is great for serialist composition. It essentially has you give the order for your tone row and then it generates the matrix that includes all the inversions, retrograde inversions, retrogrades and transpositions.
For more on Serialism visit this Wikipedia article.
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