Klarinet Archive - Posting 000218.txt from 2005/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] German sound
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:49:50 -0500

Nope. It is not going to work that way. A piece will be played
and the party being questions indicates German, French, American,
Italian, Russian.

The object is for me to demonstrate (or fail to demonstrate) that
those who maintain that they can identify German sounds, and
French sounds, etc. in a blind test cannot do so. One person
suggested that he could do that "in a heartbeat." I am
challenging that statement.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:ormo2ndtoby@-----.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 1:40 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] German sound

Dan, perhaps a more meaningful 'first experiment' (because it's
more
fundamental, and an experimental program should begin with the
basics)
would be to make a tape of different orchestral excerpts, none of
the
excerpts being on the tape twice.

The challenge would be:

"These excerpts are performed by a small number of orchestras,
but I'm
not telling you how many of these excerpts were performed by the
same
orchestra, nor even if each orchestra performed an equal number
of these
excerpts.

"Your task is to 'name' each excerpt with a letter which
identifies the
orchestra that performed it. For example, you may feel that
excerpts
#2 and #3 were performed by the same orchestra, whereas excerpts
#1 and
#4 were performed by some other orchestra. Therefore you would
assign
the name "A" to excerpts #2 and #3, and you would assign the name
"B" to
excerpts #1 and #4."

The detail of assigning a paicular nationality or culture would
come
later.... if the test subjects proved able to divide the excerpts
into
categories reliably.

<sheesh, why is the word "excerpt" so hard to type correctly !?>

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