Subject: Absolute pitch development From: Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:37:08 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Thank you. And the question for me follows as to why so few people develop absolute pitch if the (mapping) structure exists and is used. Best Kevin >Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:10:25 +0200 >From: Martin Braun <> >Subject: Message of twelve-tone serialism for auditory science > >Actually, beyond the issue of consonance, the episode of twelve-tone >serialism (Hauer, Sch=F6nberg, etc.) may be of particular interest for so= >me other aspects of hearing. > >The idea that tones can have a meaning beyond an intervallic context is >today well supported by our knowledge of pitch maps in the auditory brain. >In particular the pitch-class map (chroma map) in the auditory thalamus c= >an be considered as the primary neural origin of all types of absolute pitch >and absolute tone qualities.