Re: absolute pitch (Thomas G Brennan )


Subject: Re: absolute pitch
From:    Thomas G Brennan  <g_brennantg(at)TITAN.SFASU.EDU>
Date:    Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:03:06 -0500

No, it makes no such assumptions. It assumes that a person can recognize and identify a pitch regardless of what scale is used. The scale used simply provides a reference but has nothing to do with pitch recognition except perhaps for differences such as those with half vs quarter tone scales. Just as using a warble tone in your audiometer ranging from 970-1030 technically differs from a pure tone of 1000 the difference is seldom the issue and where it is using a 1030 or 970 rather than a 1000 will produce differences seldom seen. Of course, all numbers above are in cycles per second. Tom Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, susan allen wrote: > Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:53:02 -0700 > From: susan allen <susie(at)SHOKO.CALARTS.EDU> > To: AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA > Subject: absolute pitch > > This is presuming that the (reduced) western scale of 12 pitches is > the "absolute" or "perfect" scale? > Susan Allen >


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