Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!mketch From: mketch@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael D. Ketchen) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: What is perfect pitch? Message-ID: <25742AAA.56CC@rpi.edu> Date: 29 Nov 89 19:14:49 GMT References: <18807@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <365@bbxsda.UUCP> <1989Nov27.212927.3253@agate.berkeley.edu> <7051@portia.Stanford.EDU> <357@quad.uucp> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 26 In <357@quad.uucp> dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg) writes: | However, if someone knows good techniques for practicing absolute pitch | identification, I'm not adverse to trying them. Perfect pitch certainly | wouldn't be a great hindrance. ;') Actually, perfect pitch can be a hindrance. I have a friend here at school with perfect pitch, and when he hears a recording in our Music Analysis class that's in a different key than the score he's trying to follow along with, he can't do it. (Or at least it takes a lot of work.) He als has a lot of trouble reading other clefs (ie. tenor, alto, etc.) since the notes are in the "wrong place" for the sound they make. I also have a cousin who is a concert pianist, and if she hears a piece she knows in a different key than she knows it in, she has to leave or it will drive her crazy. | -- | David Sandberg dts@quad.uucp or ..uunet!rosevax!sialis!quad!dts - Mike -- -- |XXX| __/\__ |XXX|--------------------------+-----------------********========= |XXX| \ / |XXX| Michael D. Ketchen | This space ********========= |XXX| /____\ |XXX| mketch@pawl.rpi.edu | for rent... ================= |XXX| ][ |XXX| mketch@rpitsmts.bitnet +-----------------================= Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com