OPEN MUSIC THEORY
by Mark Gotham, Kyle Gullings, Chelsey Hamm, Bryn Hughes, Brian Jarvis, Megan Lavengood, John Peterson · first published 2021
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<p><strong><em>Open Music Theory Version 2 (OMT2)</em></strong> is an open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. As an open and natively-online resource, <em>OMT2</em> is substantially different from other commercially-published music theory textbooks, though it still provides the same content that teachers expect from a music theory text.</p><p><em>OMT2</em> has been designed inclusively. For us, this means broadening our topics beyond the standard harmony and atonal theory topics to include fundamentals, musical form
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…left the field and have been employed full-time as a software developer for more than 5 years, and pedagogy isn't an area of the field I follow closely. A good recent example is the open-access textbook Open Music Theory (https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/); perusing the examples there I think will be a good demonstration of the breadth of both styles and composers that's pretty representative of current pedagogy,…
on “Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory?” ↗I wanted to put in a plug for Open Music Theory [1], for anybody who's interested. It's an open-source [2], Creative-Commons licensed music theory text designed for use in college music theory classrooms. It's written primarily by some friends of mine,…
on “College Students Prefer Reading Print Books to E-Readers” ↗…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34756949#34782253 Looks like there's a Hooktheory Classroom product, in addition to Hookpad and their music theory book which features the music of Avicii. /r/musictheory/wiki suggests that "Open Music Theory" is the best text: https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/wiki/index/ The search keyword "Melodic" Do Windows VST plugins work with Glicol on Linux with Yabridge, LinVst, Carla, or WineASIO? Glicol is…
on “Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing” ↗I've also been recommended to Open Music Theory, as a beginner to theory. Has anyone compared the two? https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/front-matter/int...
on “Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom” ↗