erm? i want to kno, i heard it on american idol and stuff like that....
2007-01-26 04:52:43 · 7 answers · asked by BlAZE` 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Hi Missina,
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Tone deafness
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A person who is tone deaf lacks relative pitch, the ability to discriminate between musical notes. Being tone deaf is having difficulty or being unable to correctly hear relative differences between notes; however, in common usage, it refers to a person's inability to reproduce them accurately. The latter inability is most often caused by lack of musical training or education and not actual tone deafness.
The ability of relative pitch, as with other musical abilities, appears to be inherent in healthy functional humans. The hearing impairment appears to be genetically influenced, though it can also result from brain damage. While someone who is unable to reproduce pitches because of a lack of musical training would not be considered tone deaf in a medical sense, the term might still be used to describe them casually. Someone who cannot reproduce pitches accurately, because of lack of training or tone deafness, is said to be unable to "carry a tune." Tone deafness affects ability to hear pitch changes produced by a musical instrument and/or the human voice. However, tone deaf people seem to be only disabled when it comes to music, and they can fully interpret the prosody or intonation of human speech. It has been observed that in societies with tonal languages such as Cantonese and Vietnamese, there are almost no tone deaf people. This might point to it being a learnt skill.
Tone deaf people often lack a sense of musical aesthetics, and much like a color blind person would not be apt to appreciate colorful visual art, some tone deaf people cannot appreciate music. Tone deafness is also associated with other musical-specific impairments such as inability to keep time with music (the lack of rhythm), or the inability to remember or even recognize a song. These disabilities can appear separately but some research shows that they are more likely to appear in tone deaf people. [1]
Tone deafness is also known variously as amusia, tune deafness, dysmelodia and dysmusia.
2007-01-26 06:52:26 · answer #1 · answered by Judy M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not tone death. It's tone deaf. A person who is tone deaf means they do not know how to sing in the correct key. What they sing might sound right to their ears but sound very wrong to others. They sing in the wrong key and also can't tell if they are singing right or not.
2007-01-26 05:00:11 · answer #2 · answered by coolrubygal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's "tone deaf" and it's when someone can't sing the pitch of the notes exactly like the song would originally go.
2007-01-26 04:58:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am tone deaf!! but i can still sing like a wild woman i have a set of pipes that just dont quit!!!.. but it means that u can recignise the differances between the differnt sounds and notes makeing it extemly hard or almost impossible to play an instument
2007-01-26 05:02:27 · answer #4 · answered by slightly disturbed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you trying to be funny? If so... "lol". If not, the term is "tone deaf". It means one doesn't have the ability to distinguish one musical note from another. I guess if you had "tone death", you wouldn't be able distinguish one note from another either because you would be dead!
2007-01-26 05:03:21 · answer #5 · answered by Aunt Bee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its tone deaf, un able to recognize keys and notes of music and replicate them.
2007-01-26 04:56:59 · answer #6 · answered by BL 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the others are correct... it's tone deaf.
but when you're a karaoke host, as i am, TONE DEATH is a ROTFLMAO wording for what i so often have to put up with!
thanks, that made my day! ;)
2007-01-26 05:06:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋