Perfect Pitch Again....sigh

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Tom

I'm not sure Mozart't perfect pitch had any impact one way or the other 
on music history.  I am relatively sure that his <<perfect pitch>> would 
be in significant disagreement with most  peoples <<perfect pitch>> 
today.  Interesting to note that ofte times American singers relate 
their <<perfect pitch>> to 440 where as Europeans relate theirs to 
442... also interesting to note that recent studies show that this 
phenomenon evidently occurs far more often in countries with tonal 
languages like Vietnamese more then it does here in the west.

In anycase, my point was simply that like with just about any concept, 
humans manage to confuse and confound the reality of the thing and come 
up with all kinds of mythical magics they declare without further ado as 
truths.... and it is these that get in the way.  That Mosart... or any 
other composer may (or may not) have been aided in his musical 
creativity by his sense of pitch memory (whatever that was at the time) 
is really not the issue.

Cheers
RicB


    Yeah, like Mozart's perfect pitch really had a negative impact on
    music history...
       
      Tom Sivak
      Chicago

    Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote:
     
    Sigh... IYWKMROOTM the whole perfect pitch syndrom is one of the
    biggest banes in the history of music..... :(

    Cheers
    RicB