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Teoriá is an online music theory and aural training website. The navigation is a bit clunky however it is a perfect resource for students wishing to improve their aural skills in intervals, scales, and chords, along with theory skills and melodic dictation skills.
Click here to go straight to the aural training and theory exercises
The Vienna Academy is provided by Vienna Symphonic Library, a company who make and sell sample libraries and production software for classical music. The Vienna Academy is free to access and contains a vast amount of information about orchestral instruments, including their construction, abilities, limitations, notation, and techniques.
The Orchestra: A User's Manual is a website provided by Professor Andrew Hugill, a British academic, composer, and musicologist. This website is another resource to find detailed information about orchestral instruments, including their range, extended techniques, and notation.
YouTube has a great selection of channels covering musicology and musicianship. These are fantastic educational resources for students to watch at home or for teachers to incorperate into their lessons.
MuseScore is a free music notation software. After recent updates, MuseScore is now incredibly user-friendly and is adequate software for Music 2 students to compose with. The GNU General Public License guarantees that MuseScore will always remain free to download and use.
Click here to go to the MuseScore download page
The Australian Music Centre is a national organisation that catalogues, lends, and sells scores of Australian art music compositions. It is a fantastic resources for finding HSC repertoire for the Mandatory Topic Music of the last 25 years (Australian focus).
Click here to go straight to their HSC Guide
Created by Kenneth John Taylor (aka Ishkur), this website details the evolution and distinctive features of 153 subgenres of electronic music. Each subgenre has a (often subjective and snarky) description along with audio examples.
Click here to go to Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music (CW: Some coarse language)
Ultimate Guitar is a website where users can submit and rate chord, guitar tab and bass tab transcriptions of popular songs.
Click here to go to Ultimate Guitar
Learning Synths is an interactive website created by Ableton that teaches the basics of subtractive synthesis. The website sequentially builds knowledge about envelopes, LFOs, oscillators, and filters.
Click here to go to Learning Synths
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