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I used to teach Sunday school, and some of it involved having students do a little singing. I was shocked at the number of ten-year-old kids who could not sing back a pattern of pitches by ear. I'm not talking about singing beautifully, or in tune; I'm talking about distinguishing flat, rising, or falling tones. The scary part? These were kids who had taken music lessons. I still don't understand it; maybe it wasn't inability at all, just passive resistance because they didn't want to be there.
I've spent about eleven years of my life in various choirs, and I am still effectively music illiterate. I'm capable of singing perfectly well, but the terms "flat, rising and falling tones" mean nothing to me. I can't read sheet music, remember the names of notes, I'm not even sure I remember what a scale is...
It's not that I haven't tried to learn these things, but for some reason I've found myself completely unable to retain any of it, despite having plenty of opportunity to make use of the information. I can only speculate on what the reasons for this might be.