Subject: Re: Pitch and Music From: Frédéric Maintenant <f.maintenant(at)NTLWORLD.COM> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:00:08 +0000Dear Vidya, in music the pitch is mostly assumed to be F0, this is more or less acceptable when dealing with classical music (XVIIth – XIXth c.) but things are sometime more ambiguous in contemporary music (see Murail in particular). You may find more info from the following non-exhaustive list: MMK : [Mensh-Maschine-Kommunikation], Technische Universität München, Germany - http://www.mmk.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/index_e.html Ernst Terhardt – Perception of Auditory Pitch http://www.mmk.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/persons/ter.html Computer Music Centre, Columbia University, New York, US – http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/ Tristan Murail – Orchestration and computer music http://music.columbia.edu/faculty/murail.html Fred Lerdahl – Tonal pitch space http://music.columbia.edu/faculty/lerdahl.html UCSD Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, USA – http://www-psy.ucsd.edu/ Diana Deutsch – musical perception http://www-psy.ucsd.edu/~ddeutsch/ Ircam : [Institute of Research Coordination Acoustics / Music], Paris, France - http://www.ircam.fr/index-e.html , ftp://ftp.ircam.fr/ Jeremy Marozeau – effect of the fundamental frequency on the timbre of musical sound http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/pcm/marozeau/ The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, USA – http://vesicle.nsi.edu/ Aniruddh D. Patel – Pitch perception, neurophysiology of music http://vesicle.nsi.edu/users/patel/ Neuroscience of music, Karlstad, Sweden – http://w1.570.telia.com/~u57011259/ Martin Braun – Pitch and harmony detection in the auditory midbrain [Gamelan] http://w1.570.telia.com/~u57011259/engH.htm Acoustics/ Psychoacoustics, MSU Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University – http://www.pa.msu.edu/acoustics/ William M. Hartmann – Pitch perception http://www.pa.msu.edu/acoustics/wmh.htm Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing (CNBH), Physiology Department, University of Cambridge, UK – http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/cnbh/ Roy D. Patterson – Primary Auditory Cortex, Pitch [see PDF files] http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~roy.patterson/ sincerely, Frédéric Maintenant http://www.cdmc.asso.fr/biographies/m_q/maintenant.htm > > From: Vidya Ganesh <vganesh(at)PURDUE.EDU> > Date: 2005/04/19 Tue PM 05:13:06 GMT > To: AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA > Subject: Pitch and Music > > Dear Auditory List members, > > A relatively naive question: > > Pitch and music are sometimes used inter-changeably. Good pitch perception is important for good musical > perception, but what is the difference between pitch and music? Is it that pitch only refers to the perceptual > attribute of freqeuency while music perception requires not only to pitch perception, but melody, rythm and timbral > perception? Could I have your thoughts please? > > Regards, > Vidya > > > -- > Vidya Ganesh | Office: G-16, Heavilon Hall > Dept of Audiology & Speech Sciences | Ph: 494-3806 > 500 Oval Drive | E-mail: vganesh(at)purdue.edu > West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038 > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information