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
>
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John Blyth
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Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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