Absolute pitch, widely referred to as perfect pitch, refers to the ability to identify a note by name without the benefit of a reference note, or to be able to produce a note (as in singing) that is the correct pitch without reference. Absolute pitch - Definition. Absolute pitch has been defined as "the ability to attach labels to isolated auditory stimuli on the basis of pitch alone" (Ward and Burns, 1982). A person with absolute pitch will be able to, at minimum, know when a piece is ...

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• Absolute pitch - Definition
• Absolute pitch - Distinctions
• Absolute pitch - Passive absolute pitch
• Absolute pitch - Active absolute pitch
• Absolute pitch - Correlation with musical genius
• Absolute pitch - Scientific studies related to absolute pitch
• Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch as a special case of sensation
• Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch and linguistics
• Absolute pitch - Nature or Nurture?
• Absolute pitch - Famous possessors of absolute pitch

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The musicologist Richard Parncutt and the cognitive psychologist Daniel Levitin introduced the following distinctions in their entry on Absolute pitch in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Absolute pitch - Passive absolute pitch. Persons with passive absolute pitch are able to identify individual notes which they hear, and can identify the key of a composition (assuming some degree of musical knowledge). Not all of them are always capable of singing a given note on command. Those who can are known to possess "active" absolute pitch.

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Absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Definition, Absolute pitch - Distinctions, Absolute pitch - Passive absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Active absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Correlation with musical genius, Absolute pitch - Scientific studies related to absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch as a special case of sensation, Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch and linguistics, Absolute pitch - Nature or Nurture?, Absolute pitch - Famous possessors of absolute pitch

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Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch as a special case of sensation. Absolute pitch is not limited to the realm of music, or even to humans. Songbirds and wolves have exhibited the ability. In fact, studies indicate that absolute pitch is more a linguistic ability than a musical one. Absolute pitch is an act of cognition, needing memory of the frequency, a label for the frequency (such as B-flat), and exposure to the common range considered a note. (A note in modern tuning can vary in its exact frequency.) It may be d ...

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Absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Definition, Absolute pitch - Distinctions, Absolute pitch - Passive absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Active absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Correlation with musical genius, Absolute pitch - Scientific studies related to absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch as a special case of sensation, Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch and linguistics, Absolute pitch - Nature or Nurture?, Absolute pitch - Famous possessors of absolute pitch

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Absolute pitch has been defined as "the ability to attach labels to isolated auditory stimuli on the basis of pitch alone" (Ward and Burns, 1982). A person with absolute pitch will be able to, at minimum, know when a piece is not played in its original key. Persons who have absolute pitch, but who do not have strong musical training, may seem annoyed or unnerved when a piece is transposed to a different key (or played in nonstandard pitch), and can have difficulty transposing music without manually calculating intervals between known ...

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Absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Definition, Absolute pitch - Distinctions, Absolute pitch - Passive absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Active absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Correlation with musical genius, Absolute pitch - Scientific studies related to absolute pitch, Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch as a special case of sensation, Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch and linguistics, Absolute pitch - Nature or Nurture?, Absolute pitch - Famous possessors of absolute pitch

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