Open Music Theory
by Open Music Theory Contributors
From the Open Music Theory website:
The Open-Access Music Theory Textbook
Section titled “The Open-Access Music Theory Textbook”Open Music Theory (OMT) is an open-source, digital textbook designed for college-level music theory courses and high school AP Music Theory. Because it is openly licensed and hosted on GitHub, it provides a highly customizable and interactive resource that is free from commercial licensing costs.
Key Resources
Section titled “Key Resources”- Core Theoretical Concepts: Comprehensive units covering music fundamentals, diatonic harmony, voice leading, chromatic harmony, and 20th-century post-tonal analysis.
- Popular and Jazz Theory: Specialized chapters on lead sheet notation, blues progressions, popular song forms, and jazz harmonic structures.
- Embedded Audio & Interactive Exercises: Score examples feature embedded audio playback and self-correcting interactive exercises to help students visualize and hear theoretical concepts.
- Anthology & Workbook Links: Connects to an extensive public domain music anthology and collaborative workbooks for practical classroom analysis.