For teachers: a free music theory course to assign
You're welcome to use this course with your students, in class or at home. There's nothing to install, no account to create, and no student data is collected. Here's what you may find useful.
Assign a lesson
Every lesson has its own address, which you can paste into a message or onto your class page. Your students read and hear the concept in about ten minutes, then take a quiz that grades itself. Their progress stays in their browser, and a resume code lets them carry it over to another device.
Print, with or without the answers
Every lesson prints cleanly: first the text and the examples, then the quiz on paper, with the answer key on a separate page that you can keep. The worksheet generator makes note reading and writing exercises in 8 clefs, as well as intervals, key signatures and scales. Each sheet has a number, so if you give the whole class the same number, everyone gets exactly the same sheet.
Each sheet has a number: write it down to get exactly the same sheet again (handy to give a whole class the same homework).
What the course covers
The curriculum follows Danhauser's “Théorie de la musique”, first published in 1872 and still used in French conservatories. It goes from the staff all the way to chords, and it's extended with modern harmony. The examples play on piano or on the student's own instrument: guitar, bass, violin, cello, flute, clarinet, saxophone or trumpet.
Recommend this course
Would you like to point your students to it, or add it to the resources page of your school or blog? Here are two sentences and the link, ready to copy. Feel free to edit them.
The Music Theory Course: a complete, free online music theory course: 67 short lessons, with sound, self-correcting exercises and printable worksheets. No sign-up. https://themusictheorycourse.com/
If you spot a mistake, have a suggestion, or need something for your curriculum, write to hello@themusictheorycourse.com.