Library & Learning Commons: Music Theory and Analysis: Theory-Specific Resources

Recent Acquisitions about Music Theory and Analysis

On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone by Philip Ewell
Call Number: MT6 .E88 2023
ISBN: 9780472075027
Publication Date: 2023-04-24
Journeys Through Galant Expositions by L. Poundie Burstein
Call Number: MT62 .B87 2020
ISBN: 9780190083991
Publication Date: 2020-09-22
Harmony in Mendelssohn and Schumann by David Damschroder
Call Number: MT50 .D35 2019
ISBN: 9781108406246
Publication Date: 2019-09-19
Analysis of Jazz by Laurent Cugny
Call Number: MT146 .C83 2019
ISBN: 9781496821881
Publication Date: 2019-01-30
Contemporary Musicianship by Jennifer Sterling Snodgrass
Call Number: MT7 .S674 2016
ISBN: 9780199990870
Publication Date: 2015-04-01

Books

In addition to ebooks you can access through the catalog, you can browse print books about music theory and analysis on the third floor. Most books about theory are in the call number range MT5.5-MT7, and books about analysis of musical works are in the range MT90-146. You can also find books about theory and analysis scattered throughout the ML and MT call number ranges.

Free Open Access Resources

Fundamentals, Function, and Form
Open access theory textbook by SUNY Potsdam professor Andre Mount.
Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy
The premiere journal dedicated to the dissemination of scholarship regarding the teaching and learning of music theory.
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
Comprehensive open access music theory text by Robert Hutchinson at the University of Puget Sound. Hutchinson's approach focuses less on four-part voice-leading and more on relating harmony to the phrase. Examples drawn from popular music, film music, and musical theatre illustrate the text.
Open Music Theory, version 2
Comprehensive, collaboratively-authored, open access music theory text that includes units on jazz, popular music, post-tonal theory, and orchestration.
SMT-Pod
Open access, peer-reviewed venue for conversations about music theory, from the Society for Music Theory.
SMT-V
Open access, peer-reviewed video journal of the Society for Music Theory.

Journals

Journal of Music Theory
Contents from 1957-2018 available online.
Music Theory Online
Contents since March 2007 available online.
Music Theory Spectrum
Contents from 1979-2020 available online.

Online Diversity Resources for Music Theorists

Expanding the Music Theory Canon
A compendium of musical examples by underrepresented composers that illustrate key concepts in the Western tonal theory curriculum.
Music by Women
Musical examples and theoretical writings by women.
Music Theory Examples by BIPOC Composers
Crowdsourced spreadsheet listing examples by composers of color for use in the theory and aural skills curricula.