Quick Links

Tools
Virtual Keyboard
Online Metronome
Printable staff paper

Theory websites
Musictheory.net
Emusictheory.com
Practicespot
Sightreadthis.com

Dictionaries
Virginia Tech
Dolmetsch

Software
MacGamut

Finale Notepad

Composition Projects

The following composition projects have proven fun and instructive for our students.

  • Sightsinging melodies - creating your own melodies for sightsinging is great thing to do!
  • Binary form - a short composition consisting of two periods in AB form.
  • Etude - single-line composition utilizing good harmonic progressions.
  • I'll Be Bach - take a chorale melody that Bach harmonized and try it yourself.
  • Sonatina - for advanced students looking for a challenge!
  • Chaconne - basically an exercise in theme and variations. Fun for students.