A recent study published in Psychological Science provides evidence that people naturally absorb the underlying rules of ...

If you've always wanted to learn more about song writing and the structure of music, but don't know where to start, this free online book is filled to the brim with pages that make understanding music ...

This class is the first level of music theory and is intended to be an introductory course including notation (staff, clefs, time signatures, measures, etc.), note reading, rhythm reading, music ...

Courses in Music Theory provide students with a set of portable tools that they can use in the various musical situations in which they might find themselves. These classes expose students to a broad ...

Composers often speak of fitting chords and melodies together, as though sounds were physical objects with geometric shape -- and now a Princeton University musician has shown that advanced geometry ...

Across the board, I see a huge amount of resistance to the idea of learning music theory, scales, and any kind of advanced philosophy in music at all. There’s an air of pride about not knowing things ...

The benefits of music in our lives are increasingly acknowledged by researchers and scientist. As human beings, we have taken the existence of music for granted and rarely think critically about music ...

I've enjoyed listening to music all of my life, but never really understood how it “worked.” For example, what did it mean when a piece of music was composed in the key of G minor? The concepts of ...