Musictheory books recommended by reddit

The most-mentioned books on r/musictheory.

The Jazz Theory Book
40 users
Twentieth-Century Harmony
31 users
Harmony and Voice Leading
23 users
A Geometry of Music
21 users
Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory
18 users
The Complete Musician
17 users
The Study of Counterpoint
17 users
Tonal Harmony
16 users
The Jazz Piano Book
16 users
The Study of Orchestration
15 users
Behind Bars
15 users
A Modern Method for Guitar
14 users
Counterpoint
13 users
Classical Form
13 users
Music in the Galant Style
13 users
Composing Music
13 users
Counterpoint in Composition
13 users
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony
13 users
The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis
13 users
This Is Your Brain on Music
13 users
Fundamentals of Musical Composition
13 users
Tonal Harmony
12 users
Harmony and Theory
12 users
Edly's Music Theory for Practical People
12 users
Analysis of Tonal Music
11 users
Music for Sight Singing
11 users
Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns
11 users
The Guitar Grimoire
11 users
Harmonic Experience
11 users
The Geometry of Musical Rhythm
11 users
Theory of Harmony
10 users
371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies with Figured Bass
10 users
Understanding Post-Tonal Music
9 users
A History of Western Music
9 users
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
9 users
The Real Book
9 users
Ted Greene
9 users
Music Theory for Computer Musicians
9 users
Modal Counterpoint
8 users
Elements of Sonata Theory
8 users
Analyzing Classical Form
8 users
Music Notation in the Twentieth Century
8 users
Harmony
8 users
Counterpoint
8 users
Chord Progressions For Songwriters
8 users
Guitar Fretboard Workbook
8 users
Essential Dictionary of Orchestration
8 users
Music Notation
8 users
Tonal Harmony, with an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music
7 users
RIMSKY
7 users
The Study of Fugue
7 users
Music Theory for Guitarists
7 users
Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles
7 users
Modern Reading Text in 4/4 For All Instruments
7 users
Voicings for Jazz Keyboard
7 users
Foundations of Diatonic Theory
7 users
The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony
7 users
Music Theory For Dummies
7 users
Music theory 101
7 users
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory
7 users
Fantasy pieces
6 users
The Art of Partimento
6 users
Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations
6 users
Audacious Euphony
6 users
Instrumentation and Orchestration
6 users
Melody in Songwriting
6 users
Jazz Theory Resources
6 users
Jazzology
6 users
Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony
6 users
Standard Wirebound Manuscript Paper
6 users
The Advancing Guitarist
6 users
Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer
6 users
Tonal Harmony
6 users
The AB Guide to Music Theory, Part 1
6 users
The Jazz Harmony Book
6 users
Meter As Rhythm
5 users
Hearing in Time
5 users
Sweet Anticipation
5 users
A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
5 users
Musical composition
5 users
The Rest Is Noise
5 users
Structural Functions of Harmony
5 users
Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
5 users
Structural Hearing
5 users
Arranging for Large Jazz Ensemble
5 users
Hal Leonard Pocket Music Theory
5 users
The Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios and Cadences
5 users
The Beatles
5 users
Building Walking Bass Lines
5 users
A Theory of Harmony
5 users
A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint
5 users
Practical Theory
5 users
Adult All-In-One Course
5 users
Modalogy
5 users
The Chord Scale Theory and Jazz Harmony
5 users
The technique of orchestration
4 users
Baroque Counterpoint
4 users
Music, Language, and the Brain
4 users
Tunesmith
4 users
Tonal Harmony
4 users