As an electronic musician, it’s important to be able to create and finesse the sounds of your productions. The ability to ...

From half diminished chords to phrygian modes; music theory can be both a help and a hindrance to many, but do you really need it in order to be a great musician? When you purchase through links on ...

PRODUCER WEEK 2025: For today's free and easy music producers, the knotty business of music theory has always had a slight whiff of the uncool about it. Talk of Major and Minor scales conjure up ...

Previously, we've published a frankly must-read guide on how to build your knowledge of music theory to make better ...

All of which brings me to an important, if extraordinarily controversial, new book by my former Hunter College colleague, Philip Ewell, a professor of music theory. Entitled On Music Theory and Making ...

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 ...

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 ...

In previous In Theory articles, we’ve explored the concept of “functional harmony” and how dominant chords feel highly unstable, craving resolution. Music theorists Benward and Saker trace ...

We recommend a music theory course for anyone interested in creating music. While you may know what melody, rhythm, and harmony are, you'll better understand music when you dive deeply into a ...

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, ...