Fiona, After your note here I re-read my post, and have to recall that I only know about half a dozen people with perfect pitch, half of whom are annoying about it, and not particularily talented; however the other half consists of a remarkable retired prof. who has the most extraordinary grasp of musical subtleties along with many other great qualities, a soprano with a voice like ice cream (compliment) and a fine bass trombonist. Many people I know have varying degrees of pitch memory and awareness: mine used to be better when I did more choir than solo singing! BTW some of my very best friends live in Vancouver, and one is close to the end of a doctorate in composition at UBC. john
At 12:11 PM 6/24/00 -0700, you wrote: >Good post, John. > >Just to elaborate - there are different degrees of perfect pitch. Not sure >how to explain it. There have also been studies conducted which seem to >indicate that perfect pitch is partially genetic. anyhow, there are people >with perfect pitch who simply hear the pitch of a note and recall it and >can tell you what key something is in. There are others who will scream if >when singing in a choir, the choir goes off into a quarter-tone >soemthing -or-other and is not really in a key. (I'm not one of these thank >goodness). There are others who can hear a huge chromatic-like cluster of >notes and name them all on the spot without much thought. And there are >some who can tell when a note is Ab and 3/4... very precise kind of pitch. >So it does vary. > >Fiona > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Get 6 months of FREE* MSN Internet access! >http://click.egroups.com/1/5725/6/_/843894/_/961874097/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >vocalist-temporary-unsubscribe@o... > > > > John Blyth Baritono robusto e lirico Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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