From: malcolm@apple.com
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 94 22:33:38 -0800
Subject: Tentative Tempo Talk at CCRMA
Message-Id: <9403080633.AA29534@apple.com>

This talk is a bit tentative... Dan's heading back to Oregon soon... and 
I wasn't able to confirm the time.  But definitely put this on your
calendars.

Dan Levitin will be talking about people's memory for tempo.  Many of you
will remember Dan's excellent work last year on whether most people have
"perfect" memory for pitch.  His conclusion was, we do.  (He asked people to
sing popular songs and checked to see how close the subjects came to the
original pitch.)  Are we as good with musical tempo?

We're going to try moving back to 10:30 again... but I'll send another
note on Wednesday to confirm this.  Til then...

	Who:	Dan Levitin (U. of Oregon and CCRMA)
	What:	Absolute Memory for Musical Tempo 
	When:	Thursday March 10th at 10:30AM
	Where:	CCRMA Library (Top Floor of the Knoll)

See you at CCRMA!!!

-- Malcolm



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		   Absolute Memory for Musical Tempo 

		
			Dan Levitin
		Visiting Research Fellow, CCRMA
			    and
		Dept. of Psychology, University of Oregon
			
Mental representations of perceptual stimuli seem to preserve  
a great deal of veridical information.  In a previous study, I showed that  
memory for musical pitch is very accurate, even in non-musicians.  How  
accurate is the mental representation of the tempo of a piece?  A new  
analysis of the melodic dataset reveals that even when people aren't  
explicitly instructed to reproduce tempo, most sing at, or very near, the  
proper tempo for the song they are remembering.  In addition, I will discuss  
some hunches I have about how songs are stored in memory.