Music Theory

April 20th, 2009 by jason Leave a reply »

I’ve rekindled my interest in music following my reading of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, which dealt with math, art and music. I found a great site that teaches music theory from the ground up, Ricci Adam’s MusicTheory.net. The tutorials are fairly basic but instructive.

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