Author: Wes
Date: 2016-07-19 22:58
Often, I hear a note and know what it is because it is the same note that a known phrase starts on. For example, C# because that is the first note of the flute solo of "Afternoon of a Fawn". Or E because that is the first solo note of the Mozart Concerto. Sometimes, a note can be identified because of it's character not because of it's pitch, such as the low D on a flute, as Mr. Blumberg indicated with reference to the clarinet.
A is a memory note because I've played it so often on the oboe for tuning and I can sing it with no reference if I am actively playing in an orchestra, although I could not sing an Eb with no reference.
When I studied some with the late Warne Marsh, one of his exercises was to learn to identify by ear the various triads, major, minor, augmented, diminished, and their inversions when someone else played them on the piano. That turned out to be easier than one would think.
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