I heard someone on NPR recently who wrote a book called Your brain on music. (or something close to that title) He mentioned in passing that one theory on Perfect pitch is that we are all born with it - that infants hear each pitch as a distinctly different entity. Than many of us, after hearing a great majority of our music transposed in many keys, begin to listen to relationship between notes rather than hearing each note as seperate. (As one sees colors). That got me thinking about how one would develop perfect pitch in a time when not only was transposition the norm, but pitch standards were not at all constant either. Dan
--- Ed Durbrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perfect pitch is a form of memory. Some percentage > of people are born > with a capacity for extraordinary memory. Why would > it have been > different then? > > On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > > >> Does anyone know of any mention of perfect pitch > from > >> before the time of A=440 equal temperment being > >> standard? I wonder if people didn't develop > perfect > >> pitch at all when they routinely exposed to such > wide > >> fluctuations in tuning? > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
