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Do you have perfect pitch? How can you assess the utility if you don't possess it? Perfect pitch would be very useful IMO, can you imagine what it would do to o
by sjtgraham 13y ago
Do you have perfect pitch? How can you assess the utility if you don't possess it? Perfect pitch would be very useful IMO, can you imagine what it would do to one's compositional abilities for example?
Relative pitch is just recognition of intervals between notes and the qualities of different chords, but you're right in that perfect pitch and relative pitch are quite unrelated.
- 70forty 13y agoHow do you think it would help with composition?
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- ewoodrich 13y agoIt would likely have a negligible benefit for composition, even if notating unassisted by any pitch aid. Since the intervals (not frequencies though) between scales are consistent regardless of the pitch of the tonic, one could compose a piece using relative pitch that they believe to be in the key of C, when actually they are "hearing" it in Bb. Precise relative pitch ability has much more utility in composition, absolute pitch would have more advantage for performance (choral starting note, woodwind tuning, on-the-fly assessment of string fingering). It would only be useful if for some reason you needed to compose and then perform a piece without a reference pitch.
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