Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 1999/02

From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Perfect Pitch
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 07:34:46 -0500

I still can't "name that note" even though I've been exposed, practiced
etc. for many, many years. Colors are easy. I'm not sure that "perfect
pitch" is memory, but I do believe that "relative pitch" is. The more I
listen and try, the closer I get to relative pitch. I don't think
there's much chance I'll ever get to perfect - no matter what. Just my
opinion...
Paulette

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:42:31 -0500 "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
writes:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 11:54 PM
>Subject: RE: [kl] Perfect Pitch
>>
>>Everybody I've ever met who had perfect pitch has had the degree of
>>sensitivity described above. They describe it not as "memory", but
>>rather as an intuitive perception over which they exercise no con-
>>scious control. It is akin to most people's natural ability to i-
>>dentify colors of the rainbow. We know what red looks like, whether
>>or not any other color is present in what is being viewed. This is
>>a form of "absolute" vision, with no point of additional reference
>>beyond the color itself...
>
>Color perception, too, is learned, as parents and nursery school
>teachers
>know. The fact that we all agree that a particular area of the
>spectrum is
>"red" and can all (if we aren't visually impaired, i.e. colorblind)
>recognize it accurately is a testament to our parents and other early
>teachers. Perhaps back in an earlier evolutionary stage, the ability
>to
>learn and _communicate about_ different colors was more useful for
>survival
>than was the ability to communicate about the identity of any
>particular
>sound frequency. Most of us can and do learn to associate names with
>colors.
>Most of us never learn aurally to associate specific names (alphabetic
>or
>sol-fa syllables) with specific pitches (as perceived aurally, not
>visually
>by way of notation). Both kinds of recognition seem on their face to
>be the
>same kind of learned outcomes; it seems that among humans visual
>identification is for some reason more easily and universally learned
>than
>is aural ID.
>
>My 2 cents FWIW
>
>Karl Krelove
>
>
>
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