Music 2133 Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music 2A

(Dr. Gordon J. Callon)

Class e-mail list: MUSI2133X1@acadiau.ca

Office Hours & Schedule, Winter 2004

Other Useful Web Sites for Music 2133:

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General Theory Sources

• teoría software
  [See also teoría, Practical Music Theory Exercises]

Ken Fansler's Online Music Instruction Page

• Other Music Resources
  [See also Ken Fansler's Online Music Instruction Page—Online Instruction, Exercises, and Drill]]

Rhythm and Meter: A Bibliographic Glossary [School of Music at Indiana University]

• Glossary of Terms [an excellent and extensive dictionary of terminology]
• Bibliography

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

["An interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation."]

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Online Instruction, Exercises, and Drill

Comprehensive (Rudiments plus other material)

• Music Theory Online [Dr. Brian Blood]
• teoría, Music Theory web: web site dedicated to the study of music theory:
Interactive Exercises (Java Applets): [superb (basic) excercises!!! Intervals, Chords (including advanced), Scales]
[See also teoría, Music Theory web—General Theory Sources]
• TonalityGUIDE.com [Tom Pankhurst]
• Table of Contents
• Jazz Theory [Pete Thomas]
• Music Theory for Songwriters [Jeff Mallett's Songwriter Site]  [An excellent introduction to the basic principles of chord progression, secondary dominants and other borrowed chords, and chord substitution]
• Music 612B—Music 4 Virtual Classroom [Dr. Ciro G. Scotto, U. of Texas Austin and U. of Texas Brownsville]
• Lecture Notes
• The Phrygian II and the Neapolitan 6th [thorough explanination]
• Augmented Sixth Chords [thorough explanination]
• Glossary [theory course terms only]
• Syntactic Structures in Music: Harmony.org.uk [Tom Sutcliffe]
• Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory ["Music theory lessons online!"]
• Dansm's Guitar Chord Theory [Dan Smith]  [Rudiments and basic harmony related in reference to the guitar]

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Rudiments & Ear Training

MUS109: Music Theory & Aural Skills	Java Music Theory	Music Theory (Music Notes)
Ken Fansler's Online Music Instruction	MiBAC Music Theory Reference	and see Software for Recorder Players

• MUS109: Introduction to Music Theory and Aural Skills ["interactive online course"; Dr. John Steffa, Office of Continuing Education at Murray State University]
• Java Music Theory [Rob Whelan]
• Music Theory [The Treble Rebels (Music Notes)]
• Ken Fansler's Online Music Instruction
• Online Music Instruction Training Page
  [See also Ken Fansler's Online Music Instruction Page: Music Resources-General Theory Sources]]


• MiBAC Music Theory Reference [basic introduction to rudiments]

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Notation

• Music Notation Software
• The Big Site of Music Notation and Engraving
• Engraving Conventions [i.e., normal practice in notation layout]
• Bach Font for Musicologists (Dr. Yo Tomita, Research Fellow, School of Music, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
  • "Bach (Shareware) is a software font for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh. Bach contains a comprehensive set of musical symbols but retains the normal English character set in a standard Roman type-face... ." The font is used for inserting music notation into documents in word processing and data bases.
• Saint Meinrad Fonts (Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Liturgical Music Office) [fonts for use in word processors]
• "TrueType Fonts for Creating Gregorian Chant in Microsoft® Windows® [and] Macintosh; Melody TrueType Font [for]Microsoft® Windows®"
• Score links
• Acadia University Music Archive of Score(notation software) resources FTP files
• Acadia University Music Archive of Score Draw (notation software) resources FTP files
• New Notations Computer Services, Friston, England
• npc Imaging
• Music Score Recognition: Optical Music Recognition (David Bainbridge)
• Notation Interchange File Format (NIFF)
• Shareware Music Fonts by Ronald Caltabiano
• Alain Naigeon's Introduction to Renaissance Notation: Notation ancienne:
• Mensuration - an introduction [English]
La mensuration - introduction [French]
• Ligatures [English]
• Les Ligatures [French]
• Renaissance Music Notation from the mid-16th century-Reading and Transcribing White Mensural Notation
• And see: Software for Recorder Players

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Music Business & Technology

• Indiana University Music Library Music Resources page list of Music Technology Links
• Philip Rees Modern Music Technology
• History of electronic music technology Links
• Physics of sound and music Links
• SCORE Music Software Links
• Music Notation Software
• Acoustical Society of America
• Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI)
• Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME)
• CCRMA (The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics)
• Institute for Music Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio
• Conferences
• The Big Site of Music Notation and Engraving
• Music Notation and Engraving Links (Notation Software)
• Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University
• Braille Music Software
• MuSICA (Music & Science Information Computer Archive) (Including MuSICA Research Notes, a twice-yearly newsletter that provides reports and critical analysis of research on music and behavior, including education, child development, psychology, cognitive sciences, neuroscience, clinical medicine, music therapy and allied fields.)
• Notation Interchange File Format (NIFF)
• McGill University M.Mus. program in Sound Recording
• Ghostscript & Ghostview/GSview
• New Notations Computer Services, Friston, England
• Harmony Central [commercial music technology site-hardware & software]
• Music Technology Learning Center (MTLC)
• npc Imaging
• npc Imaging Directory of Music Engravers
• Music Score Recognition: Optical Music Recognition (David Bainbridge)
• Synth Zone
• Magazine & Publications Links
• Synths & Effects Links

Publishing

• Synth Zone Magazine & Publications Links

Computers: Music Hardware & Software

• Opcode Systems (MIDI sequencing and digital audio recording software)
• New Notations Computer Services, Friston, England

Acoustic Engineering

• Acoustical Society of America

Recording Engineering

• McGill University M.Mus. program in Sound Recording
• Mix Online (magazine of commercial and project studio recording, concert sound, audio for film and video, etc.)

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• The Woodwind Fingering Guide [numerical charts with "over 1800 fingerings" for Flute, Clarinet, Recorder, Saxophone, Oboe, Bassoon]

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