Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: What is perfect pitch? Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 20:50:04 GMT References: <18807@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <365@bbxsda.UUCP> <1989Nov27.212927.3253@agate.berkeley.edu> <7051@portia.Stanford.EDU> <357@quad.uucp> <25742AAA.56CC@rpi.edu> <1989Nov30.014942.3772@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 24 In-reply-to: ladasky@codon4.berkeley.edu's message of 30 Nov 89 01:49:42 GMT In article <1989Nov30.014942.3772@agate.berkeley.edu> ladasky@codon4.berkeley.edu (John Ladasky;1021 Solano No. 2;528-8666) writes: > I just finished a piano quintet > this month and noticed that I had accidentally written a low B into the cello > part. So I transposed the sequence of the piece up a half-step and played it > back. You have no idea how different it sounded! Actually, this is really interesting. When a group of people would hear the untransposed piece, and another group heard the transposed piece, would they experience it as differently? Certainly, those who have perfect pitch could tell that the key was different. But how about the musical experience? Just wondering. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" ------------------------- Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com