Absolute pitch (AP) is the rare ability to identify or produce a musical note without any external reference. This phenomenon has long served as a model for investigating the interplay of genetic ...

Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch (AP), describes a person’s ability to identify a music note without any reference tone. It needn’t be just identifying the note from a musical instrument, one can just ...

It is undisputed that the cognition of tonal music is primarily established by pitch relationships set within a tonal scheme such as a major or minor key. The corresponding notion—that absolute pitch ...

It’s been a long-held belief that absolute pitch - the ability to identify musical notes without reference - is a rare gift reserved for a select few with special genetic gifts or those who began ...

University of Surrey provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Absolute pitch has long been viewed as a kind of musical superpower. It refers to the ability to identify or produce ...

SOME time ago there appeared in the newspapers a story that brought an old problem into new focus. According to that story, French musicians were making an organized appeal to the world to stop the ...