ALLERME y NEIDHARDT - A vous d´entendre (Your turn to listen) para Piano (Inc.CD) - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Absolute pitch, as compared the relative pitch, is the ability to identify a musical note without any reference. In the Western World, only one person out of 10.000 has an "active" absolute pitch, meaning they would be able to sing a correctly pitched note without any reference note. The famous Juilliard School of Music, in New York, failed in trying to train their students to have an absolute pitch. As absolute pitch is a precise way to recognize and to identify a sound, the military forces, particularly Marines, were interested in this peculiarity. But this was before improvements in electro-acoustics. Absolute pitch is the ability, for a percentage of musicians, to recognize and determine, without any previous reference, the name of one or several successive or simultaneous notes. NN: Sophie, you have absolute pitch. Explain us how that works... SA: I can put the name of a note on any sound, no matter where it comes from. This works only because I have knowledge in musical theory and I keep practicing. NN: Does this mean that you were born with absolute pitch and that there´s probably a lot of people out there who are not aware of their gift ? SA: Indeed. Every person who has absolute pitch will only discover it once they have studied the language of music. NN: Is it a good thing for a musician to have absolute pitch ? SA: A couple of disadvantages too. When the reference pitch changes (say a tape played with a speed variation), the absolute pitch doesnot recognize the real pitch of the notes anymore. Plus it´s difficult to impossible to listen to asound with an approximate pitch. What about you ? You have a relative pitch. What´s the differencebetween relative and absolute pitch ? NN: I always need a reference pitch to name a note. From there, I have my own method for "calculating" the intervals. SA: Does this relative pitch require specific work ? NN: Yes it does. Learning the intervals was certainly a longer process for me. Onthe other hand, I can deal w...

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