Free Theory Books

Some theory books:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Music_theory

Hi, I hear that Michael Tippett started with this one, 

http://imslp.org/wiki/Musical_Composition_(Stanford,_Charles_Villiers)

My question is, are there any other free books/websites out there that you can recommend?

i think there's a translation of fux out of copyright. Also, there are a bunch of texts of some interest if you know german. Wikipedia has some good articles too.

However, I suspect those are more specialized than you need. Shell out for some good books. 'Free' is too dear a price for learning badly.

What books do you recommend for a beginner? 

I'm copypasting from another site...

*Basic theory for ALL styles (except atonal). Very useful for everybody.

http://www.musictheory.net/

http://www.teoria.com/

* Rather straightforward treatise:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Harmony_Book_for_Beginners_%28Orem,_Preston_Ware%29

*Tchaikovsky's treatise. However, he's a bit anal retentive in the last chapters.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Guide_to_the_Practical_Study_of_Harmony_%28Tchaiko...

* "Long" treatise. I don't know if that's meant to be read completely (Aaag!!), but it may be useful as a reference work.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Harmony:_Its_Theory_and_Practice_%28Prout,_Ebeneze...

(among others)

*Orchestration

http://imslp.org/wiki/Principles_of_Orchestration_%28Rimsky-Korsakov,_Ni...

http://imslp.org/wiki/Grand_trait%C3%A9_d%27instrumentation_et_d%27orche...

*"Classical" composition in general (considerable harmonic knowledge is required)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Musical_Composition_%28Stanford,_Charles_Villiers%29

http://bookos.org/book/773582

*Jazz harmony

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