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Martin Braun wrote:
"It's timbre learning. Automatic association of timbre
and chroma, the latter
being derived from the summation of octave-spaced
partials, results in a
secure "secondary" pitch perception.
An analogy is chord identification. Highly trained
musicians can identify
chord categories from the timbre of a chord."
I find this idea very interesting, and
believe it to be true as I have long suspected it to be the case that chord
learning is actually timbre learning. If there is any empirical evidence for
this I would be most grateful for the particulars.
Incidentally, this seems to be not only a
higher order function, but also an example of what in the lingo of
cognitive semantics would be called conceptual integration or "blending".
We could say that we conceptualize a pitch through the integration of
information from two different domains: a perceived timbre domain and a learned
schema for partials.
Best
Ole
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