I believe that educational resources should be shared widely for the benefit of society. This page contains resources I use in my music classes.

Open Music Theory Version 2 – A natively-online open educational resource (OER) intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. I coordinated the workbook assignments.

  • Recipient of two grants from the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA):
  • Winner, 2026 Virginia Open Educational Resource (OER) Impact Award
  • Nominee, several Society for Music Theory awards (2022–2025), including the Pedagogy of Music Theory Award, Public-Facing Scholarship Award, Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award, and Citation of Special Merit

OER FOR UNDERGRADUATE MUSIC THEORY (2017)

Below is my free collection of written music theory assignments and other teaching materials. Most of these files were later incorporated into the workbook for Open Music Theory Version 2 (above).

This collection contains 109 documents, including:

  • 73 worksheets (35 unique topical worksheets, most with 2 versions to allow for both practice and graded assignments)
  • 16 larger projects (12 literature analysis, and 4 original composition)
  • 16 exams (8 unique topical exams, 2 versions of each, to allow for both practice and graded exams)
  • 4 syllabi

All documents are presented as PDFs and editable DOCX or MUSX and XML formats.

Creative Commons License

This collection is copyright © 2017 by Kyle Gullings and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. I encourage others to use, share, revise, and remix these materials, and to contact me to let me know how you’re using them. Please include the following attribution anywhere the materials are posted:

Created by composer and educator Kyle Gullings, www.kylegullings.com.

Some audio links, scores, and lyrics (highlighted) have been omitted due to copyright restrictions. In these cases, instructors are encouraged to seek out and include the specified works, or alternate works of their choosing, for educational use.

These materials were originally designed to align with the topics found in the free online “text”book Open Music Theory Version 1. OMT was built on resources authored by Kris Shaffer, Bryn Hughes, and Brian Moseley, edited by Kris Shaffer and Robin Wharton, and published by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing.