Subject: Re: Pitch learning From: Bruno Repp <repp@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:48:25 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>In response to Linda Seltzer's comments: I think you are confusing expressive freedom with the absence of an underlying system. Expressive devices usually gain their power by being perceived as deviations from an implied norm or standard. However, as I am not an expert on pitch or intonation, let alone on non-Western music, I cannot say much more than that. I hope the experts will send their reactions. Best, Bruno -- Bruno H. Repp Haskins Laboratories 300 George Street New Haven, CT 06511-6624 Tel. (203) 865-6163, ext. 236 Fax (203) 865-8963 http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/repp.html NOTE: I am at Rutgers University, Newark, two days each week, usually Wednesday and Friday, and don't read my Haskins e-mail on those days. To reach me at Rutgers, send e-mail to <repp@xxxxxxxx>.