Music Theory & Analysis   

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• Theory
• Analytical Tools
• Analyses
• Miscellaneous

Theory
• Dictionary/Glossary of Music Theory Terms
• Modes/Scales 
• Tonality, Modality, and Atonality
• Symmetry as a Compositional Determinant (revised dissertation, © 2002, 1973)
• New Thematic Transformations (90º rotations adapted from dissertation)
• The Fractal Nature of Music
• Traditional Variation Techniques of Composers and Improvisors
• Chord Chart
• Consonance and Dissonance 
• Nonharmonic Tones: Theory of
• Aesthetics: Structure and "Good Music"
• Bibliographies
  • Consonance and Dissonance Bibliography
  • Rhythm and Meter Bibliography
  • Tuning and Temperament Bibliography
    

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Analytical Tools

• Chords: Chart
• Formal & Motivic Analysis: Symbols -- suggestions and an example
• Forms and Genre
• Parametric Analysis A list of parameters and suggestions
• Schenkerian Primer
• Schenkerian Analysis: Symbols
• Set Theory
• • Set Theory Primer
  • Glossary: Set Theory
  • Construct a Simple Clock Calculator for Music Set Theoretical Analysis
  • A word of caution about Web calculators for Set Theory
  • Paul Nelson's Set Theory Primer, Set Calculator and Relations Calculator
  • A Table of Set Classes
  • Music Analysis System for set theoretical analysis: harmonic and serial, free for downloading

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  Analyses

• Bach: Violin Chaconne in D minor: Music Theory and Performance
• Bach: Invention No. 1 in C
• Bach: Prelude in C Major, WTC I
• Bach: The anatomy of canon and fugue and J.S. Bach (Tim Smith)
• Bartok:Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
• Bartok: Second String Quartet
• Compound Variation in Bartok's Second Quartet
• Beethoven: Scherzo from piano sonata No. 15, op.28
• Beethoven: Variations in C Minor, WoO 80
• Berg: Wozzeck as Expressionist Opera
• Bosch: Image Symbols and Music in the Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch
• Brahms: Sarabande, A Tonal, Harmonic, Motivic, and Formal Analysis
• Satie: the First Modern
• Scriabin: Prelude for piano, Op. 74, no. 3 (using set theory)
• Strauss: Salome's Leitmotifs and Keys
• Strauss: Salome's Allure from the "Dance of the Seven Veils", a Tonal-Harmonic Analysis
• Stravinsky: The Dies Irae in the Rite
• Symmetry as a Compositional Determinant (revised dissertation, 2002)
• Wagner: Ring Leitmotifs  (Ring of the Niebelungen motives)
  
• Wagner: Ring Riddles
• Wagner’s Music Drama as Revision of Opera
• Webern: Variations, Op. 27

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Miscellaneous

• Resource Links
• Society for Music Theory