<story><title>Awesome Music Theory: books, links, videos, research, visuals, composition</title><url>https://github.com/vpavlenko/study-music</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vitaly-pavlenko</author><text>Author here. I&amp;#x27;d love to hear from HN which resources to study music (theory) might I overlooked so far. Everything counts: from books and papers on theory to ear training exercises to YouTube videos. The higher is rarity*value, the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quadrangle</author><text>Just Intonation and everything from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.xen.wiki&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.xen.wiki&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and related, maybe some of the YouTube stuff from &amp;quot;Hear Between the Lines&amp;quot; is a good start for new accessible stuff.&lt;p&gt;Music cognition such as Sweet Anticipation by David Huron and everything like that… especially note Music and Memory by Bob Snyder which expresses everything &lt;i&gt;except&lt;/i&gt; harmony in a style that avoids traditional notation, and Sounds of Music: Perception and Notation (out of print) by Gerald Eskalin who also wrote Lies My Music Teacher Told Me&lt;p&gt;For the most part, &amp;quot;music theory&amp;quot; amounts to music-notation-and-style-grammar because very little of it is actual theory (i.e. explanation) until you add real science which means music psychology (because notation patterns and physics patterns are not music, music is a mental experience).</text></comment>
<story><title>Awesome Music Theory: books, links, videos, research, visuals, composition</title><url>https://github.com/vpavlenko/study-music</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vitaly-pavlenko</author><text>Author here. I&amp;#x27;d love to hear from HN which resources to study music (theory) might I overlooked so far. Everything counts: from books and papers on theory to ear training exercises to YouTube videos. The higher is rarity*value, the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidPiper</author><text>Great to see 12tone and 8-bit Music Theory in the YouTube and Podcasts section!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also recommend:&lt;p&gt;- Nahre Sol - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@NahreSol&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@NahreSol&lt;/a&gt; (Composition, reinvention, exercises, more theory recently)&lt;p&gt;- David Bruce - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@DBruce&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@DBruce&lt;/a&gt; (Composition techniques)&lt;p&gt;- Sideways - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@Sideways440&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@Sideways440&lt;/a&gt; (Film and musical soundtrack analysis&amp;#x2F;rants)&lt;p&gt;- Tantacrul - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@Tantacrul&amp;#x2F;videos&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;@Tantacrul&amp;#x2F;videos&lt;/a&gt; (Maybe. &amp;quot;Music meets sociology&amp;quot;?)&lt;p&gt;Those 6 channels plus r&amp;#x2F;musictheory (pre-2018) are basically my entire Music Theory &amp;#x2F; composition education. A quick note that r&amp;#x2F;musictheory is not the same thing as it was back then. IIRC there was a big switch&amp;#x2F;restart some years back, not sure what happened. Still a good Q&amp;amp;A forum today.</text></comment>