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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: perfect pitch
Keywords: perfect pitch, ear training
Message-ID: <388@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 16:50:14 GMT
References: <18807@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <365@bbxsda.UUCP> <3289@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <3289@husc6.harvard.edu> elkies@brauer.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) writes:
>In article <365@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
>>I remember music theory class back in college.  We would have to do musical
>>dictation.  The professor would play something on the piano and we would 
>>write it down.  The professor would start by playing a note and saying
>>something like, "this is G#".  It was never the note he was actually playing.
>>This was to annoy the "perfect pitch" students so they would be forced to
>>hear the intervals rather than the absolute pitches.
>
>So what's to stop them from writing down the notes they hear and then
>transposing them after the fact?

Actually, nothing.  This was a course where students spent hours in the
music lab listening to lesson tapes training their ears to recognize
intervals.  Presumably, by the time the dictation sessions came around
it would be easier just to hear the intervals rather than mentally
transpose.

-- 
Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232
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