Music Theory Resources

These resources are designed to assist the integration of music theory and technology teaching. They have been created by staff in Music at the University of Southampton, with funding assistance of the LTSN Centre for the Performing Arts, PALATINE.

The materials are intended to address entry-level (year one) students in higher education. They do not in themselves constitute a course, but courses may be designed around their use. There are three areas of musical study: species counterpoint, eighteenth-century classical pastiche (ATC), and jazz and pop resources. The buttons on the left will take you to the main pages for each.

Most of the files have brief suggestions for use, but tutors should not feel limited to these. Further exercises can be devised by simple manipulation of the materials - in fact, the materials can also be used to teach manipulation within music processing software.

The files can also be printed out for "paper-based" teaching.

In each area, source material and exercises have been created in Emagic Logic and Sibelius 2.1. The Logic files have been exported as version 4.8 so will work on later versions for Windows or Mac. You may need to use "import" from the file menu rather than "open" the fist time you use the Logic files. There are also general MIDI files for most exercises.

Because of the differences in the two software packages there are inevitably small differences in the way the files appear.

To download the music processor or MIDI files either right click (Windows) or [ctrl] + click (Mac).

Each page contains links to the relevant exercises, or you can download a 2.5 MB zip file all the files for all exercises.