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Pitch Representation
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Alex Powell leads an NEC Intro to Music-in-Education class in a non-verbal exercise where different plastic cups are used to represent different scale degrees.

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2 Responses to “Pitch Representation”

  1. randy Says:
    October 19th, 2006 at 8:09 pm e

    Wow, a video! Cool …

    I’ve seen Dr. Scripp perform this activity many times, with all sorts of audiences. But I think every time I’ve seen it, the cups always represent either ptiches or rhythms - never a combination of the two. Is it easier for non-musicall audiences to work with pitch or rhythm? Words or rhythm? Words in rhythm or pitches? Etc… it might be fun to see how audiences respond to increasingly complex patterns.

  2. guillermo.marini Says:
    February 26th, 2007 at 12:09 am e

    I’ve long been puzzled about how we perceive rhythm and pitch. Whenever there is a certain rhythm, there are pitches. But, suppose the same or different pitches are being played with a significant amount of time in between; are we able to tell the rhythm in this case? And if the pitches are too concentrated in time, almost “compressed”? Which are the limits to our rhythmical perception?

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