Absolute Pitch in Oral Transmission of Folk Tunes as Constrained Random Walks

In this commentary, I would like to add a few of our own, still unpublished, empirical observations concerning the possible role of absolute pitch memory (APM) in the oral transmission of folksongs. This empirical data poses some questions about the likelihood of the observed inter-recording tonic p...

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Main Author: Klaus Frieler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2015-12-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v10i3.4898