Maybe another way of looking at pitch [and hence the reason as to why
accurate pitch is important, even if transitory] is to study it from the
culturally/ideologically agnostic angle of psychoacostics and perception
- so as to gain a sense of why pitch is important in terms of our brains
pattern detection capabilities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics
While our technology has evolved rapidly over the last couple of
thousand years our brains have evolved a lot slower...in some cases not
at all (politicians?:-) [though there is emerging evidence that the
recent evolution of saturated electronic media overload is effecting
some cognitive changes, especially in the young]
The following is a very nicely written article that explores some of
these aspects as well:
Iegor Reznikoff
ON PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS OF MUSICAL MEANING
http://www.musicandmeaning.net/issues/showArticle.php?artID=3.2
My 0.25 cents
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