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An "awesome music theory" kinda wiki with books, resources and courses

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Awesome Music Theory Awesome

A directory of books, resources and courses for studying everything about music and sound

Where to start

  1. Go through Ableton's guide on music and Ableton's guide on synths
  2. Explore Hooktheory's TheoryTab: search for your favorite songs and anime openings. Honestly both of their books are top-notch and well worth the money
  3. Play around with Bartosz Ciechanowski's visualizations on the essence of sound
  4. Make some music with the Music Mouse
  5. Wander through Ishkur's evolution of electronic music
  6. Listen to two-chord changes typical for movie soundtracks: LP, H, T6, S, F and N
  7. See how a track emerges on the OP-1, in a studio with live instruments, on a vocal looper, in TidalCycles
  8. Dig into the structure of Beethoven's sonata #5 movement #1, also see what we as a society know about it
  9. Skim through Toby W. Rush's overview to see how many moving parts does a classical theory have
  10. Click "Show Timeline" for patterns similar to octatonic used in jazz solos: upward, downward
  11. Get back to the 1990 with The Art of Mixing
  12. Press "scan" at Every Noise
  13. Try to sing phrases in an Arabic microtonal scale
  14. Watch a gamelan multitrack and try to make sense of it, maybe with a help of a larger multitrack for another piece
  15. Find your favourite tempo of Chopin's Funeral March
  16. Rate AI demos: Magenta, MusicLM, LakhNES, Muzic, Jazz Transformer
  17. Stare at visualizations: classical, jazz harmony and jazz solos

Western music languages

Music languages can be divided into a number of families. Historically, the most dominant and influencial one is Western family of languages. Its languages share some common traits:

  • 12-tone temperament
  • major/minor keys
  • homophony
  • chords in thirds
  • any of the 12 notes can be a tonic

The languages are (roughly speaking):

  • Rock - probably worth exploring the first, as it's the simplest and pretty popular. It makes sense to start here and expand into other Western languages later on - as they share a lot of concepts. By the way, pop music (structure-wise) it a super-genre combining bits of rock, jazz and other stuff
  • Classical - the biggest chapter here, as it's the main focus of all research and teaching (despite its unpopularity according to streaming stats). Subtopics: pre-classical, advanced
  • Jazz. Subtopics: harmony, lego, solo
  • Barbershop
  • Movies
  • Video games
  • Bach chorales
  • Other genres like R&B, country, dance electronic, gospel
  • Western regional traditions (eg. Latin)

Non-Western music languages

Non-Western music languages are different families. As they were developed all over the globe, they don't share many common features.

The families are (roughly speaking):

Broad overview on non-Western languages

Topics

Topics on electronic music

Contacts

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Do you know how to enroll in a music theory program after a computer science BSc (without a completed formal music degree)? Please, let me know: cxielamiko@gmail.com, t.me/vitalypavlenko (asking for myself)

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An "awesome music theory" kinda wiki with books, resources and courses