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Isn’t pitch memorization almost as valuable as absolute pitch?
Answer to the lead question - yes, probably more so. Absolute pitch is often seen as a curse, but recall of pitches is far more useful. That's if the recalls are spot-on for tuning, which I, and I ...
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Isn’t pitch memorization almost as valuable as absolute pitch?
If you can consistently sing a song in the original key, you have something very akin to absolute pitch. But maybe you have it at a physical level rather than an intellectual one. You have physical ...
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Isn’t pitch memorization almost as valuable as absolute pitch?
I am not currently capable of hearing a note and naming what pitch it is, but I am capable of remembering the correct notes of many songs. I haven’t personally taken the time to start paying attention ...
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Isn’t pitch memorization almost as valuable as absolute pitch?
"Pitch memorisation" would more or less be the equivalent of "absolute pitch".
Note, however, that "absolute pitch" is mostly a fallacy anyways, since in almost all cases ...
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Are percussion instruments the only instrument type capable of making an unpitched (indefinite) sound? [Electronic instruments excluded]
Any stringed instrument can also become a percussion instrument. Hitting the instrument body is very obvious - but just with the strings, you have more options too.
For starters, you can have the ...
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Can two songs share the same melodic notes but still have distinct melodies?
Building on some other answers already here, film music is the master of taking a tune and playing it in completely different ways for different parts of the film, allowing a motif to represent a ...
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Can two songs share the same melodic notes but still have distinct melodies?
Another way to "disguise" the same melody is through the use of tempo and rhythm. Many people know the songs 76 Trombones and Goodnight My Someone from The Music Man, but never realized ...
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Can two songs share the same melodic notes but still have distinct melodies?
True, there are quite a few songs which contain matching melody notes. It can get close to plagiarism, as several famous songs bear testament to.
Two big differences could be apparent, though. The ...
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Can two songs share the same melodic notes but still have distinct melodies?
As has been described, it's not especially difficult to recompose a melody to make it unrecognizable as having been copied from some other song. I did this for the question How to write music if you ...
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Can two songs share the same melodic notes but still have distinct melodies?
Rearrangement of a song means typically changing the instrumentation and/or changing the accompaniment, but normally without changing the melody. So even if the song changes character a bit, it's the ...
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Can two songs share the same melodic notes but still have distinct melodies?
Easily. The rhythm matters. I think the Marine's Hymn and the Blue Danube Waltz start with notes 1,3,5 outlining a tonic chord. Lots of pieces start with an arpeggio of some chord.
These are not ...
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Are percussion instruments the only instrument type capable of making an unpitched (indefinite) sound? [Electronic instruments excluded]
No, certainly many instruments that make pitched sounds can also make unpitched. Often this means using "extended techniques," i.e. doing "weird stuff" outside of normal practice, ...
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Are percussion instruments the only instrument type capable of making an unpitched (indefinite) sound? [Electronic instruments excluded]
Not exactly. The different between "pitched" and "unpitched" sound is actually a matter of degree, not discrete. An instrument that is heard as pitched creates mostly the same ...
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