| Yes, when people sightread, either as a result of good relative or absolute pitch, they often report that they can hear the note in their 'heads', internally without any vocal production. The only difference b/w relative and absolute pitch, in this regard, is that the former need a starting basis, e.g. memory for a 440-Hz A, whereas the latter are able to do this in the absence of any reference notes; their pitch measure being 'absolute', as it were... Jose On 4 Mar 2011, at 22:47, Coralie Vincent wrote:
Dr José Ignacio Alcántara Department of Experimental Psychology University of Cambridge Downing Street Cambridge, UK CB2 3EB Phone: 44 (0)1223 764412 Fax: 44 (0)1223 333564 Fellow of Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, UK CB3 0DG Phone: 44 (0)1223 472126 |