What is Theory of Music?

Theory of Music began as a blog attached to barrymitchellmusic.com the website of the composer Barry Mitchell (me).  Eventually I got rid of the website but kept the blog. 

I work as a composer and freelance music lecturer and this site started when I posted some of my lecture notes.  I was surprised by the number of hits the posts received so I continued.  As of October 2009 this site has had over 53.000 hits.  There are also links to the site from Wikipedia and dolmetsch.com among others.  I have added a few links to sites that provide high-quality resources for the study of music.  I have tried to avoid duplicating what is available elsewhere on the internet, though there is so much available  that this is difficult.  I also try to keep within copyright law so copied resources are either out of copyright if they are primary sources or summarised if they are secondary sources.  References are as complete as possible.  With well over 150 posts on the site, ninety-nine percent of which needed to be word-processed from scratch, this site would not be as far advanced were it not for the help of  Tony Trelease who has done a lot of the word-processing on a voluntary basis.

 There are two main types of resources for the study of music posted:

1. primary sources
2. secondary sources

The posts are organised in the following  main categories:

• music and philosophy
• topics in music techonolgy
• baroque music theory
• music theory in antiquity
• medieval music theory
• renaissance music theory
• music in the classical period
• topics in ethnomusicology
• twentieth-century music theory
• eighteenth-century music theory
• history of Romantic music

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I hope you find Theory of Music interesting and useful and if you do please don’t hesitate to send me a message.

Barry Mitchell