If you are involved with commercial music, you’ll be familiar with the term ‘four-to-the-floor’. But why is four suddenly the magic number? We explore the myth of time signatures.

Music theory is the foundation of great music, and the all-important set of rules that most music follows – from harmony and melody, to rhythm.

Students completing a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory undergo a rigorous program that prepares them to continue on to graduate study in the field. In addition to working closely with the theory ...

The triad is one of the cornerstones of music theory, and vital for creating harmony. Let's examine the three points of the chord… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Our faculty offer a broad array of research specializations that include performance and analysis, theories of rhythm and meter, music-text relations, intertextuality, jazz theory and analysis, ...

Westphal's work inspired Charles Francis Abdy Williams's 1911 book which is reissued here. Williams re-examines the classical and romantic repertoire from Handel to Tchaikovsky in the light of ancient ...

The College of Music’s Graduate Certificate in Music Theory offers a curricular framework for advanced studies in music theory, along with formal acknowledgement of these studies without the more ...

Music contains notes in succession (melody) or notes in combination. When notes are played at the same time it is called harmony. The type of harmony created in a piece of music or a song is the ...

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Back in the day, before the technological advancements that brought us DAWs, a working knowledge of music theory was a necessity for music-making. Now, due to major innovations in the creative ...