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46-732: For the opera singer, see Pauline Joran . For the Japanese anime television series, see Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood . Joran , Jöran or Jøran is a masculine given name. Bearers include: Jöran Hägglund (born 1959), Swedish politician Jöran Jermas , an alias of Israel Shamir (born 1947 or 1948), Swedish writer, journalist, and promoter of antisemitism and Holocaust denial Jøran Kallmyr (born 1978), Norwegian politician and jurist, former Minister of Justice Jöran Nordberg (1677–1744), Swedish historian Jöran Persson (c. 1530–1568), King Eric XIV of Sweden's most trusted counsellor and head of

92-408: A correlation of 97% between autism and absolute pitch, with a 53% correlation in non-autistic observers. However, the converse is not indicated by research which found no difference between those with absolute pitch and those without on measures of social and communication skills, which are core deficits in autistic spectrum disorders. Additionally, the absolute pitch group's autism-spectrum quotient

138-439: A fixed key and play it from memory on their instrument, but they are not required to sing. When tested, these students did not succeed in singing the memorized Suzuki songs in the original, fixed key. Musicians with absolute perception may experience difficulties which do not exist for other musicians. Because absolute listeners are capable of recognizing that a musical composition has been transposed from its original key, or that

184-422: A heard tone on a musical instrument without "hunting" for the correct pitch . The frequency of AP in the general population is not known. A proportion of 1 in 10,000 is widely reported, but not supported by evidence; a 2019 review indicated a prevalence of at least 4% amongst music students. Generally, absolute pitch implies some or all of these abilities, achieved without a reference tone: Absolute pitch

230-592: A hostess and patroness of music. Joran was born Clara Pauline Joran in Freeport , Illinois, the second of three daughters of Vienna-born Louis Grund Joran (1830–1901), a painter, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth née Askew (1850–1933). The family moved to California around 1877, and her parents divorced in 1879. She made her violin debut in 1880 and soon formed a concert troupe with her pianist sisters, Louise Marie ("Lula", born 1868) and Henrietta ("Elise", 1873–1952). Joran underwent preliminary voice training in 1884–85 with

276-554: A label for the frequency (such as "B-flat"), and exposure to the range of sound encompassed by that categorical label. Absolute pitch may be directly analogous to recognizing colors , phonemes (speech sounds), or other categorical perception of sensory stimuli . For example, most people have learned to recognize and name the color blue by the range of frequencies of the electromagnetic radiation that are perceived as light ; those who have been exposed to musical notes together with their names early in life may be more likely to identify

322-564: A pitch is being produced at a nonstandard frequency (either sharp or flat), a musician with absolute pitch may become confused upon perceiving tones believed to be "wrong" or hearing a piece of music "in the wrong key". The relative pitch of the notes may be in tune to each other, but out of tune to the standard pitch or pitches the musician is familiar with or perceives as correct. This can especially apply to Baroque music , as many Baroque orchestras tune to A = 415 Hz as opposed to 440 Hz (i.e., roughly one standard semitone lower than

368-550: A predisposition for learning the ability or signal the likelihood of its spontaneous occurrence. Researchers have been trying to teach absolute pitch ability in laboratory settings for more than a century, and various commercial absolute-pitch training courses have been offered to the public since the early 1900s. In 2013, experimenters reported that adult men who took the antiseizure drug valproate (VPA) "learned to identify pitch significantly better than those taking placebo—evidence that VPA facilitated critical-period learning in

414-605: A recommendation from Ganz, Joran was engaged by the Carl Rosa Opera Company , making her London stage debut in the mezzo-soprano roles of Lola in Cavalleria rusticana and Beppe in L'amico Fritz , on tour in 1892 at, among others, the Prince's Theatre, Manchester . The latter required her to sing and play the violin simultaneously, enabling her to showcase both her talents. The Manchester Guardian wrote that she played

460-429: A tone language, even those with little musical training, are observed to sing a given song with consistent pitch. Among music students of East Asian ethnic heritage, those who speak a tone language fluently have a higher prevalence of absolute pitch than those who do not speak a tone language. African level-tone languages—such as Yoruba , with three pitch levels, and Mambila , with four—may be better suited to study

506-439: A way that superficially resembles absolute pitch. Some people have been able to develop accurate pitch identification in adulthood through training. Scientific studies of absolute pitch commenced in the 19th century, focusing on the phenomenon of musical pitch and methods of measuring it. It would have been difficult for the notion of absolute pitch to have formed earlier because pitch references were not consistent. For example,

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552-524: A word in the same absolute pitch (within a quarter-tone) on different days; it has therefore been suggested that absolute pitch may be acquired by infants when they learn to speak a tonal language (and possibly also by infants when they learn to speak a pitch-accent language ). However, the brains of tonal-language speakers do not naturally process musical sound as language; such speakers may be more likely to acquire absolute pitch for musical tones when they later receive musical training. Many native speakers of

598-436: Is microtonal or whose frequencies do not match standard 12-tone equal temperament. It is also possible for some musicians to have displaced absolute pitch, where all notes are slightly flat or slightly sharp of their respective pitch as defined by a given convention. This may arise from learning the pitch names from an instrument that was tuned to a concert pitch convention other than the one in use (e.g., A = 435 Hz,

644-603: Is a bewitching Carmen. She sings and acts the part to the life. She is a true artiste." She also sang in Italy during 1895–96 and on the concert stage. Joran created the role of Saida in the premiere of The Beauty Stone , by Arthur Sullivan , A. W. Pinero and J. Comyns Carr , at the Savoy Theatre , on May 28, 1898. She was one of two opera singers imported into the regular Savoy cast, which included Henry Lytton (who became her lifelong friend), at increased salaries to tackle

690-514: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Pauline Joran After a touring career as a child violinist, playing together with her pianist sisters in the U.S. and abroad in the 1880s, Joran began an opera career in England, which lasted through the 1890s. With her marriage to Baron de Bush in 1899, she retired from the stage. He was killed in an accident in 1903, and Joran lived quietly for some years, returning to society by 1910 as

736-442: Is distinct from relative pitch . While the ability to name specific pitches can be used to infer intervals , relative pitch identifies an interval directly by its sound. Absolute pitch may complement relative pitch in musical listening and practice, but it may also influence its development. Adults who possess relative pitch but do not already have absolute pitch can learn "pseudo-absolute pitch" and become able to identify notes in

782-512: Is evidence of a higher rate of absolute pitch in the autistic population. Many studies have examined pitch abilities in autism, but not rigidly perfect pitch, which makes them controversial. It is unclear just how many people with autism have perfect pitch because of this. In a 2009 study, researchers studied 72 teenagers with autism and found that 20 percent of the teenagers had a significant ability to detect pitches. Children with autism are especially sensitive to changes in pitch. Absolute pitch

828-448: Is exhibited at Killerton House , Broadclyst , near Exeter . Absolute pitch Absolute pitch ( AP ), often called perfect pitch , is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone . AP may be demonstrated using linguistic labelling ("naming" a note), associating mental imagery with the note, or sensorimotor responses. For example, an AP possessor can accurately reproduce

874-563: Is higher among those who are blind from birth as a result of optic nerve hypoplasia . Absolute pitch is considerably more common among those whose early childhood was spent in East Asia . This might seem to be a genetic difference; however, people of East Asian ancestry who are reared in North America are significantly less likely to develop absolute pitch than those raised in East Asia, so

920-416: Is more common among speakers of tonal languages , such as most dialects of Chinese or Vietnamese , which depend on pitch variation to distinguish words that otherwise sound the same—e.g., Mandarin with four possible tonal variations, Cantonese with nine, Southern Min with seven or eight (depending on dialect), and Vietnamese with six. Speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages have been reported to speak

966-482: Is not a prerequisite for skilled musical performance or composition. However, there is evidence that musicians with absolute pitch tend to perform better on musical transcription tasks (controlling for age of onset and amount of musical training) compared to those without absolute pitch. It was previously argued that musicians with absolute pitch perform worse than those without absolute pitch on recognition of musical intervals; however, experiments on which this conclusion

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1012-522: Is typically no keener than that of a non-absolute ("normal") listener. Absolute pitch does not depend upon a refined ability to perceive and discriminate gradations of sound frequencies, but upon detecting and categorizing a subjective perceptual quality typically referred to as "chroma". The two tasks— of identification (recognizing and naming a pitch) and discrimination (detecting changes or differences in rate of vibration)— are accomplished with different brain mechanisms. The prevalence of absolute pitch

1058-645: The Lyceum Theatre, London . On 6 December 1899, Joran married William Ernest Bush , the Baron de Bush, and retired from performing. They had a daughter together, Paulise Marie Louise (1900–1975). In March 1903 Joran made a brief return to performing, singing at a concert at St. James's Hall, presented by her sister, the pianist Elise Joran. On 24 July that year, the Baron de Bush was killed after falling in front of an express train near Northampton , while he and his wife were travelling to Scotland. This left their daughter

1104-459: The Paris Opera convention of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as opposed to the modern Euro-American convention for concert A = 442 Hz). Concert pitches have shifted higher for a brighter sound. When playing in groups with other musicians, this may lead to playing in a tonality that is slightly different from that of the rest of the group, such as when soloists tune slightly sharp of

1150-724: The Baroness de Bush, England's youngest Baroness. Joran lived quietly for several years, but by 1910, she had re-entered social life. She was a member of the Society of American Women in London and attended the events they hosted, such as a farewell dinner held for Charles W. Fairbanks in London on March 12, 1910. By this time, she was out of mourning, as she was noted to be wearing fraise (strawberry pink). She made her grand opera debut in Milan in 1910 "under Sonzogno , singing ... Santuzza and Nedda with

1196-971: The ISO standard for concert A), while other recordings of Baroque pieces (especially those of French Baroque music) are performed at 392 Hz. Historically, tuning forks for concert A used on keyboard instruments (which ensembles tune to when present), have varied widely in frequency, often between 415 Hz to 456.7 Hz. Variances in the sizes of intervals for different keys and the method of tuning instruments also can affect musicians in their perception of correct pitch, especially with music synthesized digitally using alternative tunings (e.g., unequal well temperaments and alternative meantone tunings such as 19-tone equal temperament and 31-tone equal temperament ) as opposed to 12-tone equal temperament . An absolute listener may also use absolute strategies for tasks which are more efficiently accomplished with relative strategies , such as transposition or producing harmony that

1242-489: The adult human brain". However, no adult has ever been documented to have acquired absolute listening ability, because all adults who have been formally tested after AP training have failed to demonstrate "an unqualified level of accuracy... comparable to that of AP possessors". While very few people have the ability to name a pitch with no external reference, pitch memory can be activated by repeated exposure. People who are not skilled singers will often sing popular songs in

1288-472: The boundaries of musical pitch categories vary among human cultures, the recognition of octave relationships is a natural characteristic of the mammalian auditory system. Accordingly, absolute pitch is not the ability to estimate a pitch value from the dimension of pitch-evoking frequency (30–5000 Hz), but to identify a pitch class category within the dimension of pitch class (e.g., C-C ♯ -D ... B-C). An absolute listener's sense of hearing

1334-591: The correct key, and can usually recognize when TV themes have been shifted into the wrong key. Members of the Venda culture in South Africa also sing familiar children's songs in the key in which the songs were learned. This phenomenon is apparently unrelated to musical training. The skill may be associated more closely with vocal production. Violin students learning the Suzuki method are required to memorize each composition in

1380-744: The difference is more probably explained by experience. The language that is spoken may be an important factor; many East Asians speak tonal languages such as Mandarin, Cantonese, and Thai, while others (such as those in Japan and certain provinces of Korea) speak pitch-accent languages, and the prevalence of absolute pitch may be partly explained by exposure to pitches together with meaningful musical labels very early in life. Absolute pitch ability has higher prevalence among those with Williams syndrome and those with an autism spectrum disorder , with claims estimating that up to 30% of autistic people have absolute pitch. A non-verbal piano-matching method resulted in

1426-542: The familiarization of the equal-tempered C-major scale . Most of the absolute listeners that were tested in this respect identified the C-major tones more reliably and, except for B, more quickly than the five "black key" tones, which corresponds to the higher prevalence of these tones in ordinary musical experiences. One study of Dutch non-musicians also demonstrated a bias toward using C-major tones in ordinary speech, especially on syllables related to emphasis. Absolute pitch

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1472-525: The greatest success". She became a well-known hostess and patroness of music, presenting private concerts at her house in the Regent's Park , featuring well-known singers and young performers. Joran died in 1954 in London. She was survived by her daughter Paulise, an active collector of historical dress, who bequeathed her collection to the National Trust . The collection, including some of Joran's garments,

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1564-655: The last king, Kalākaua . They returned to California in 1887 and then performed in Mexico and elsewhere. By 1890, the Jorans travelled to Europe to further their musical studies. In London, as a debutante, Joran was recommended to the conductor Wilhelm Ganz . As a member of the New Meistersingers' Club in St James's Street , Ganz arranged musical soirees for which he held auditions for potential performers. He found that Joran played

1610-634: The music, which was considered more vocally challenging than other Savoy operas . Cunningham Bridgeman deemed her "unquestionably the finest prima donna ever seen on the Savoy stage". The Times wrote, "Musically, the chief honours of the performance, such as they are, fall to Miss Pauline Joran's share; she sings the music of Saida with remarkable finish and success, and her acting is really powerful and full of suggestion." After this, in early 1899, she reprised her roles in Faust, Pagliacci , and Cavalleria rusticana at

1656-441: The note C. Although it was once thought that it "might be nothing more than a general human capacity whose expression is strongly biased by the level and type of exposure to music that people experience in a given culture", absolute pitch may be influenced by genetic variation, possibly an autosomal dominant genetic trait. Evidence suggests that absolute pitch sense is influenced by cultural exposure to music, especially in

1702-446: The note known as 'A' varied in different local or national musical traditions between what is considered as G sharp and B flat before the standardisation of the late 19th century. While the term absolute pitch , or absolute ear , was in use by the late 19th century by both British and German researchers, its application was not universal; other terms such as musical ear , absolute tone consciousness , or positive pitch referred to

1748-413: The rest of the ensemble to stand out or to compensate for loosening strings during longer performances. Absolute pitch shows a genetic overlap with music-related and non-music-related synesthesia / ideasthesia . They may associate certain notes or keys with different colors, enabling them to tell what any note or key is. In this study, about 20% of people with absolute pitch are also synesthetes. There

1794-410: The role of absolute pitch in speech than the pitch and contour tone languages of East Asia. Speakers of European languages make subconscious use of an absolute pitch memory when speaking. Absolute pitch is the ability to perceive pitch class and to mentally categorize sounds according to perceived pitch class. A pitch class is the set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart. While

1840-448: The same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joran&oldid=1176496567 " Categories : Given names Masculine given names Dutch masculine given names Swedish masculine given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

1886-400: The same ability. The skill is not exclusively musical. Physically and functionally, the auditory system of an absolute listener evidently does not differ from that of a non-absolute listener. Rather, "it reflects a particular ability to analyze frequency information, presumably involving high-level cortical processing." Absolute pitch is an act of cognition , needing memory of the frequency,

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1932-528: The singer Margaret Blake-Alverson, who had described her as singing with taste and feeling, as well as being a talented violinist. In 1884, the sisters performed for the famous opera singer Adelina Patti . Their director was Marie C. Hyde, who also acted as an accompanist. The children's talents were much admired at the time, especially their absolute pitch ability to tell the notes of chords sounded, even while blindfolded. The troupe visited California, Hawaii and, by 1886, Australia. In Hawaii, they played for

1978-836: The title role in Carmen , Eurydice in Orfeo , Nedda in Pagliacci , Alice Ford in Falstaff , Anita in La Navarraise , Lady Pamela in Fra Diavolo , and roles in Maritana , Cavalleria rusticana , Die Walküre , Roméo et Juliette , The Lady of Longford , as well as the role of Gertrude in an opera bouffe called Il Maestro di Cappella at the Prince of Wales's Theatre . An 1896 review said of her, "Joran

2024-588: The violin "like an angel" and then surprised her audience with the excellence of her singing. Another tour with Carl Rosa followed, and Joran was given the opportunity to play several larger roles. She was soon engaged by Sir Augustus Harris to sing roles at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden , at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , and on tour. Joran's roles over the next four years included Marguerite in Faust ,

2070-559: The violin well, and that she had a lovely soprano voice. Ganz advised her to give up playing the violin and take to the operatic stage, as she was a very good-looking young woman with a beautiful figure. Nevertheless, Joran did not abandon the violin, playing Mendelssohn 's G minor Violin Concerto in Liverpool in 1893 and, as late as December 1896, giving a concert at St James's Hall , London, as both violinist and vocalist. Meanwhile, with

2116-627: Was "way below clinical thresholds". Absolute pitch might be achievable by any human being during a critical period of auditory development, after which period cognitive strategies favor global and relational processing. Proponents of the critical-period theory agree that the presence of absolute pitch ability is dependent on learning, but there is disagreement about whether training causes absolute skills to occur or lack of training causes absolute perception to be overwhelmed and obliterated by relative perception of musical intervals . One or more genetic loci could affect absolute pitch ability,

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