We'll kick off the chase with Diana Deutsch, a professor specializing in the Psychology of Music, who could extract song out even the most monotonous of drones. (Think Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller. Bue...Show More
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hutchman recommended:Jun 21st, 2021
WOWWWWW...🤯 this tells of the interesting field of lyrical and musical links within language. And why if you speak Mandarin you are more likely to have perfect pitch.
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mm recommended:Jun 28th, 2021
As someone who speaks a tonal language as my first language, I'm not sure if I entirely agree with the perfect pitch argument because I struggled with music harmony.
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mootJun 30th, 2021
@mm That’s cool! I first learned Mandarin at home but I’ve seen people who have perfect pitch without having a tonal language as a background 😅 It sounds like it’s only a hypothesis so far but an interesting one 🧐
mmJul 3rd, 2021
@mo-to I guess if the definition of perfect pitch is to be able to differentiate tones, then one can argue being able to comprehend Mandarin means you have perfect pitch. I found it a bit funny when they’re so shocked that a Mandarin speaker has the same pitch for the word even recorded over long pe...Show More
mootJul 3rd, 2021
@mm Right?! It was confusing because does being able to distinguish different tones = perfect pitch? Or not necessarily? And also, I agree - I dunno why they were so surprised that the tones don’t change over a given period of time 😂💀