MusicTheory.net vs Musition

MusicTheory.net is a free, ad-free music theory learning site with animated lessons, practice exercises, and reference tools. Lessons address notation, rhythm, scales, intervals, chords, and chord progressions. Online exercises cover identifying and constructing material on the staff, keyboard, and fretboard, as well as ear training. Calculators handle accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis, and twelve-tone matrices; other tools include a tempo tapper and staff paper generator. Teachers can make permanent links to customized exercises and validate exercise verification codes. Students can create signed Progress Reports with codes teachers can verify. Lessons, exercises, and tools can be embedded in other sites using HTML frames or iframes; the FAQ recommends a minimum size of 600 by 600 pixels. The Tenuto app for iPhone and iPad adds 24 exercises, six calculators, customization, Challenge Mode, and offline use. Theory Lessons is an iPhone and iPad app with 39 animated lessons. The website plan includes all site content at free, with no ads.

Musition is online music theory software for students from beginner through advanced levels. Its 61 topics include pitch, intervals, scales, chords, rhythm, beaming, transposition, error detection, and analysis. Students can work with interactive exercises, rhythm practice, harmony tools, advanced notation, and MIDI support. Teachers can create quizzes, worksheets, assessments, and exams, then use student assessment and tracking tools. Four-part writing is automatically assessed with annotated feedback. Five courses cover orchestral instrument families, with questions on recognition, sound production, clefs, pitch, techniques, terms, and symbols. Musition is listed for web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Cloud students can use a browser without a download, but need a School Code and PIN. The maker offers a free trial to teachers, schools, colleges, and universities; no duration is stated. Cloud Student access costs $25, paid once for six months or $39 a year for 12 months. Desktop perpetual licenses are $99, paid once for Student and $169, paid once for Professional & Teachers. The Student license is for one computer and up to three enrolled users and cannot be networked or used for cloud or school use.