Resources

Lavengood, Hamm, Gullings, et. al. Open Music Theory

Robert Hutchenson, Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

David Temperley, The Musical Language of Rock

Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music

Christopher Doll, Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era

Charlie Wilmoth, PopGrammar: A Songwriter's Guide to Music Theory

Ralph Turek, Today's Musician (3rd Ed.) 

Andre Mount, Fundamentals, Function, and Form

MusicTheory.net

Tone Savvy

Teoria

G Major Music Theory

Adam Kolek, The Dictation Resource

Tutoring is free for all NYU students enrolled in a core music theory course in the department. 

See the link here for more information. 

Printable staff paper with room for notes 

MuseScore: Free open-source music notation program for download that works on any platform. 

Tempo: Online Metronome or BPM Tool for keeping or finding a tempo. 

Piano Drone: Tool for singing intervals or melodies again a sustained pitch. 

Notio (Interactive Keyboard): Online interactive keyboard that you can set for any scale. Scale degrees/solfege/note names can be added to keys. A great visual tool for improvisation and dictation work! 

IMSLP: Largest online database of public domain music scores. 

Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People: Handy reference handouts created by Sparky the Theory Dog for various topics. 

BandLab: Free open-source online platform for recording, mixing, and collaborating on music projects. Audacity is another good open-source downloadable option that works cross-platform. 

HookTheory: Plug in a chord progression and listen to excerpts from pop songs that use that progression.

Groove Pizza: Interactive online tool for experimenting with different grooves in popular music. 

aQWERTYon: Jam along with your favorite Youtube recordings on your computer keyboard with different instruments and effects. 

Analysis Apps:

• •  Audio Timeliner and BriFormer are great for marking up an audio recording with notes about harmony, rhythmic patterns, formal areas, keys, etc. Both are free and work cross-platform. Audio Timeliner is a download; BriFormer works in the browser. 

  • Sonic Visualiser: A free downloadable app that generates a spectrogram, waveform, melodic spectrogram, and other visualizations of audio files for analysis and annotation. Allows detailed comparison between different audio files. 

  • ClipGrab: Free downloadable app that allows you to copy in a Youtube link and download the audio as a mp3 or video file for analysis.