Author: HCR
Date: 2011-10-25 21:29
Addendum, responding to sfalexi's post about identifying pitches in chords: there are varying degrees of being able to do it, as you probably know. When I was tested in college, and given dissonant chords to listen to without playing or hearing any music since the day before, my identifications were reliable up through four-note chords, and less so above that. There are undoubtedly better "ears" than mine, but I was told I still qualified as having perfect pitch and/or absolute pitch. By the way, the psych student who was monitoring our session asked me over and over again by what mental mechanism I did those IDs, and when I repeatedly gave him an honest answer ("I dunno, I just do"), he turned puce.
Responding to Norman Swale's post about "true perfect pitch": I can't speak for others, but while I can hear an ensemble going out of tune, it has to reach a half-tone flat or sharp before I even care very much IF I'M A PARTICIPANT. Then I care because I have to start transposing. If I'm listening to others as an audience member, I'm like the rest of you up to a point: I'm fine as long as those others stay in tune with one another, no matter where they wander. But if they aren't, and somebody gets too far off from the others, it sets my teeth on edge and I have to take a hike for a while. And yes, I have wasted some opera tickets . . .
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