gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis) (03/26/91)
Hi !!! To the dude who mentioned something about Burge's attribution of absolute color to pitches: Yes, that is hogwash. Burge used visual color in an analogy.
quayster@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Tony Chung) (03/26/91)
gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis) writes: > To the dude who mentioned something about Burge's attribution of > absolute color to pitches: > > Yes, that is hogwash. Burge used visual color in an analogy. To continue this thought, in the first assignment, Burge suggests you get a handful of coloured pencils and choose one to represent each chromatic note from C to B. The purpose of this is to get you to start listening to each individual note for something special about its pitch colour (as opposed to tone colour). My ear-training partner and I both disagree on what colour notes sound like to us, so that means visual colours are not that important. Burge asks that once you give each pitch a separate colour, to forget about it. Hopefully your mind would have caught on that there is more to pitch than its highness or lowness. However, often we do associate moods and colours to tones, just because they are readily apparent to us... although I think the mood and colour changes when you introduce some sense of key, ie. major or minor. To me, F major sounds "yellow", but F minor sounds "pink". To another, completely different colours might appear. On another topic, Phil Mattson (writer/arranger for Manhattan Transfer; editor of Gene Puerlman's Singers Unlimited work) offered our improv class 4 key ingredients of a musician: 1) A good ear 2) A good mind for theory 3) Technical facility 4) A way to combine all three elements into a whole He never once mentioned that having perfect pitch was a necessity, nor did he say it was not. I hope that this keeps the subject of pitch recognition open to interpretation. For everyone who says that it is NOT important, there are an equal number who say it is. -TC +- Tony Chung -----------------+ \ ^ | quayster@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca | -- o- | quayster@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca | ) "I had something clever to +----------------- Tony Quays -+ (____, say, but dammit; I forgot"