non12tone

Non12tone is a music project and online educational resource focused on music theory and composition. It operates primarily through a YouTube channel and a companion website, publishing video essays, articles, and occasionally original music. The material covers topics such as harmonic function, scale construction, rhythm, meter, and form, often analyzing assumptions underlying conventional Western tonal practice and proposing alternative analytical perspectives.

The project is associated with a collaborative team of composers, theorists, and writers. Public information about its exact founders, membership, and timeline of inception is limited, and the project’s publicly available documentation emphasizes creating accessible explanations rather than presenting a single auteur narrative. Its videos typically use clear explanations, diagrams, and musical examples drawn from classical, jazz, and contemporary popular music to illustrate concepts.

In its pedagogical approach, non12tone highlights critical thinking about how music theory is taught and applied. It frequently engages with debates surrounding tonal and atonal systems, modulation, form, and the applicability of traditional analysis to modern music. The content has been cited in discussions of online music education and has influenced listeners who seek deeper or alternative explanations of musical structure and theory.

Overall, non12tone is characterized by a collaborative, theory-focused ethos that aims to stimulate inquiry into how music is constructed, analyzed, and understood beyond conventional teaching paradigms.