Kevin Meixner offers a step-by-step introduction to reading sheet music, including bass and treble clefs, rhythm, notes, keys, and accidentals. Includes audio clips.

Free course presents the basic concepts of music theory to beginners in 26 lessons. Each lesson includes an introduction sheet and a quiz.

Take this short course in music theory and play around on the provided Flash keyboard. With musical history and a resource for conducting.

Work through eight lessons that help in defining sound, pitch, scales, rhythm, notation, intervals and harmony. Has sound clips.

Discover the history and theory behind this compositional method developed by Arnold Schoenberg in the 1920s.

Aid for songwriters explains scales, keys, chord progressions and complex chords. View complete chord charts and maps.

Course designed for adults explains pitch, chords and time. Listen to MIDI files.

Animated lessons teach basic and intermediate music theory concepts such as notation and chords. Requires Flash 5 Player.