LUKE CARLSON composer

Pedagogy

Open-access learning tools, video courses, and instructional materials for music theory, aural skills, and notation

Open Educational Resource • Free & Open Access

Interactive Music Theory & Aural Skills

A free, open-access web textbook designed for undergraduate music curricula and independent learners. Features interactive score excerpts, inline audio playback for immediate ear reinforcement, and practical exercises spanning diatonic voice leading through post-tonal analysis.

  • Comprehensive Scope: Fundamentals, voice-leading, chromaticism, form & analysis, and 20th-century techniques.
  • Integrated Audio: Embedded acoustic playback on every musical example and cadence model.
  • Zero Cost: No account required, free to adopt for college courses and studio syllabi.

Additional modules on orchestration, advanced tonal analysis, and aural skills practice are in active development alongside the textbook.

Instruction

Courses & Tutorials

Available across online learning platforms

Software & Engraving • 12-Video Comprehensive Course

Dorico: Music Notation & Score Preparation

A practical guide to Steinberg Dorico for composers, arrangers, and engravers. Covers core note entry, formatting layouts, condensing, part extraction, and engraving options for publication-quality scores.