Four Score and More
MusoRepo: Teaching
Audio and signal-processing textbooks
Two notable releases from protagonists of the ISMIR community.
- Alexander Lerch: An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis (borderline: The book is not free; the companion website is.)
- FMP Notebooks – Python notebooks for Fundamentals of Music Processing.
- Meinard Müller: Fundamentals of Music Processing – Springer, 2015/2021. Overview and links. (borderline: The book is not free; the companion materials are.)
Music theory, fundamentals and aural skills
Free and open resources.
- Four Score and More – Music theory resources, including automatic generation of score exercises.
- Music Theory Practice – Includes external recommendations.
- musictheory.net – Lessons and exercises. (borderline: Freemium: the web lessons and exercises are free, some apps are paid.)
- Open Music Theory – Open online textbook surveying Western music theory.
Guides to symbolic-music tools
- MEI pedagogy resources
- music21 User’s Guide – Serves partly and incidentally to teach symbolic-music content.
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