Subject: Re: On "learned" A/P, lattice / grid From: Eliot Handelman <eliot@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:41:04 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Martin Braun wrote: > Pitch combinations do not just work through intervals, but through > chroma and intervals. Well, chroma has always been on the dark side of > the moon. That's why music theory did not get at it. The good thing is > that good composers and musicians of all times, and irrespective of > verbal AP, have made use of chroma memory - subconsciously. Martin, I can only understand you here to be suggesting that pitches have intrinsic, specific & perceptible qualities that are part of the makeup of, say, a tune that works. So, since melody is based partly on intrinsic pitch properties, people who enjoy music necessarily must have some sort of AP. Have I misunderstood? -- eliot