Music Theory
Music theory.net: Keyboard Trainer
A fantastic resource for music teachers and students learning to play the piano. This online quiz can be customized to test students on specific keys. Students can click "Toggle helpers," to check answers along the way.
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Music theory.net: Note Trainer
A fabulous tool for music teachers and students! This online quiz tests students knowledge of the various musical notes. (Click on "toggle" to check your answers along the way.)
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Music theory.net: Interval Trainer
This online quiz is a fantastic tool to check your knowledge of intervals. Keeps score, and can be customized to fit specific lessons (augmented intervals, diminished intervals, double accidentals.)
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Music theory.net: Chord Ear Trainer
This online quiz gives students a chance to recognize triads and seventh chords, by listening to audio clips. Teachers can customize this quiz and print out progress reports.
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Music theory.net: Note Duration
A fabulous resource for beginners in music theory! Gives examples and explanations of the sixteenth note, eighth note, quarter note, half note, and whole note. The last page on this site provides a chart showing the relationship of each...
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Music thoery.net: Measures and Time Signatures
A fabulous resource for beginners! Gives examples and explanations of measures and time signatures. Simple illustrations and explanations make this animated site easy to follow.
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Music theory.net: Rest Duration
A wonderful resource for teachers and students! Gives examples and explanations of rests and how they affect the sound of a musical piece. Simple illustrations and explanations make this animated site easy to follow.
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Music theory.net: Dots and Ties
A terrific resource for beginners! Gives examples of dots and ties, and explains how they are used. Simple illustrations and explanations make this animated site easy to follow. By MusicTheory.net.
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Music theory.net: Simple and Compound Meter
Examples of simple and compound meters, as well as explanations of the terms duple, triple, and quadruple. Plenty of illustrations accompany this terrific resource. By MusicTheory.net.
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Music theory.net: Phrases and Cadences
An explanation of phrases and cadences with illustrated examples. Also provides audio clips, and a printable chart at the end of the lesson. By MusicTheory.net.
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Music theory.net: Odd Meter
This site gives a brief definition of an odd meter. Use the arrows at the bottom to navigate. Provides illustrations and a printable chart.
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Music theory.net: Steps and Accidentals
Provides an explanation of half steps, whole steps, flats, and sharps. Illustrated examples accompany these definitions.
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Music theory.net: The Major Scale
A terrific reference for music students and teachers! Explains the fundamentals of the major scale, provides diagrams, and audio clips to help children recognize this piece of music theory.
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Music theory.net: The Minor Scales
Listen and learn with this explanation of minor scales. Each description of harmonic, melodic, and minor scales provides an illustrated example, and audio clips.
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Music theory.net: Key Signature Calculation
An explanation of key signature calculation for advanced music students. Discusses the use of sharps and flats in music composition, with illustrated examples. (You may need to download Flash player to view this site.)
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Music theory.net: Scale Degrees
A thorough explanation of scale degrees and the various names for each note. Provides illustrated examples and audio clips to enhance the lesson. Terrific resource for music students and teachers!
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Music theory.net: Introduction to Chords
A thorough description of chords, roots, and triads. Provides illustrated examples as well as audio clips to supplement this lesson.(You may need to download Flash Player to view this site.)
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Music theory.com: Introduction to Chords
A description of augmented and diminished triads/ chords. Provides illustrated examples with highlighted vocabulary words,a printable chart, and audio clips to supplement the lesson.
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Music theory.net: Generic Intervals
A description of intervals and how they are used in music. Provides audio clips and illustrated examples to supplement this lesson.
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Music theory.net: Generic Intervals
A thorough description of generic intervals with a printable chart at the end of the lesson. MusicTheory.net provides illustrated examples, and highlighted vocabulary terms. (You may need to download Flash Player to view this site.)
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Music theory.net: Diatonic Triads
Descriptions of diatonic triads: major, natural minor, and harmonic minor. Provides animated illustrations, and a printable chart at the end of the lesson.
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Music theory.net: Key Trainer
A terrific tool for music teachers and students! Test students' knowledge of key signatures with this online quiz. Click "toggle" to check answers along the way, or click "setting" to customize the quiz.
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Music theory.net
This interactive resource provides hands-on lessons in basic music theory and ear training.
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Music Theory: The Staff, Clefs, and Ledger Lines
Use the arrows at the bottom of the screen to move through the statements about musical staffs, clefs, and ledger lines, and see them demonstrated on the lines above the text.