[pianotech] CTE's - what are you thoughts? (continuation of Re: Old can of worms)

[David Renaud]

Actually, your wrong, yes it is scored with aural criteria, are the intervals"pleasing" aurally, 
Or do they offend. 

Here is how it works.

The scoring computer program "earmarks" notes outside parameters, That may of may not become Deductions.  Only one of the 3 examiners know what the computer scoring program says. The other 2 people on the examination team do not have a clue what the computer scoring program says.  The one examiner that knows where the earmarked notes are will request particular notes at his discretion to be aurally checked. The others do not know if it is a good note, bad note, flat or sharp, no clue. They check the note carefully with purely aural checks. 
They must determine on their own if it is flat, sharp, or good. The candidate can defend where he put the note. The other two examiners must agree it is flat, or that it is sharp, and agree with the computer program correctly or the deduction is thrown out. 

       So notes that are outside parameters, but are "pleasing" , balancing intervals well, can and are often thrown out. Bad notes are verified aurally in a blind test. Pleasing notes can brown out, and not become deductions.

      Smart test. Good exercise.
      Bad notes are proven in this blind aural testing for "pleasing balanced intervals"

                                               Dave Renaud
                                                  
                                






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On 2012-05-12, at 3:26 PM, "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> wrote:

> Except that the exam is not scored on "pleasing". It is scored on objective criteria the foundations of which are laid down electronically. If pleasing were the criteria for passing the exam then we would expect to see no deductions for musical sounding well temperaments or octave stretching which exceeds the exam protocols which many will say are much more conservative than they use in real life. 
> ------Original Message------
> From: Mark Dierauf
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> Subject: Re: [pianotech] CTE's - what are you thoughts? (continuation of Re: Old can of worms)
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> Bingo! What he said!
> 
> - Mark
> 
> On 5/12/2012 11:19 AM, Kent Swafford wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Pianos are tuned for the benefit of music, an aural art. Regardless of 
>> the methods used to accomplish a finely tuned piano, the results are, 
>> in the end, expected to be _aurally_ pleasing. Perhaps the current 
>> exam reflects that simple fact.
>> 
>> 
>> Kent
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> 
> David Love
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