Music listeners are not consciously aware of note identity
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In my experience, as a music listener, and also as an amateur musician and composer, I do not readily identify the notes in a scale that occur in a melody. I will caveat this pronouncement by stating that I do not have absolute pitch, and obviously if a music listener has absolute pitch then they can identify notes in the absolute sense, and presumably they could then easily identify those notes according to their position in the scale of the melody.
Music listeners are not consciously aware of note identity
Music listeners are not consciously aware of…
Music listeners are not consciously aware of note identity
In my experience, as a music listener, and also as an amateur musician and composer, I do not readily identify the notes in a scale that occur in a melody. I will caveat this pronouncement by stating that I do not have absolute pitch, and obviously if a music listener has absolute pitch then they can identify notes in the absolute sense, and presumably they could then easily identify those notes according to their position in the scale of the melody.