By Kathleen DeLaurenti and Andrea I. Copland. This text is intended for students and early career musicians navigating digital research and performance environments.
Musictheory.net is a suite of exercises, lessons, and tools to bolster music theory and aural skills. It is an excellent quizzing site with robust features. It has identification exercises for both the keyboard and the guitar fretboard. Also use this site for a pop up piano keyboard and to generate and download staff paper.
A site for ear training practice. Includes intervals, chords, scales, chord progressions, perfect pitch, functional scale degrees, intervals in context, and melodic dictation.
Foundations of Aural Skills is an online textbook for teaching introductory aural skills. It was created by Timothy Chenette, who teaches aural skills at Utah State University.
The Theory Vault is four semesters' worth of video and textual content for college level music theory. This resource is an excellent refresher but is also great for learning new concepts. The videos are short and topical and illustrated with music examples. Created by Matthew Heap, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at West Virginia University.
Open Music Theory is a digital resource intended to be used in undergraduate music theory classes. It includes the traditional music theory sequence as well as jazz, popular music, rhythm, counterpoint, and orchestration. It includes a workbook for all assignments.
This text came out of coursework developed at Peabody Conservatory and was written by Zane Forshee, Christina Manceor, and Robin McGinness. The authors outline how to create an artist mission statement, develop projects, and identify your audience and funding sources. They also walk you through the granular details of project budgets and timelines. An essential text for today's working musician and artist.
