Welcome

to Philip Perry's Website
The central theme of this website is Music: focusing in particular on methods and models for the analysis of tonal music*; in addition to which there are MIDI files to download and free sheet music in PDF format in the Archives - links below.

Journey to the Heart of Music Articles, essays and example analyses presented in a book-like form, describing a general relational model which may be applied to western tonal music: Essentially the model reduces harmony to a form of number processing. Links from the contents section of this introductory document will in due course provide access to all the 'chapters' outlining the mutable base positional number system and its application to harmonic analysis.

[It is envisaged that the whole text, with example analyses and scores, plus sundry extra material, will be available for free download, before the end of 2009. At present not all links are connected, and some chapters have yet to be edited.]

Using AWK and Perl to Search for Patterns in Music Information and scripts for analysing music, plus a script to alphabetically sort an HTML catalogue or list.

Reflected Music Download free example music scores for keyboard, piano and sax/clarinet and baroque solo sonata ensemble, in PDF and MIDI format. Plus an introduction to the 'reflection' (harmonic inversion) of a piece of music and how this process creates a new, different, 'companion' composition.

Rosebay Bass Recorder Music Archive Download free music scores for BASS RECORDER (or other melody instruments)
in PDF format.

* A good proportion of the music, information, ideas and opinions to be found on this site are of a highly speculative, experimental and exploratory character, though at times challenging, I hope you will be able to find something worthwhile amongst the dross.

Created 10Sept2002. Updated 25Mar.2009.