perfect pitch
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ability to accurately identify musical notes by ear without reference
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Within Vinony's link graph, perfect pitch is referenced by 402 other articles, and connects out to autism, cognition and music therapy.
It sits within the topics Cognitive musicology, Music cognition and Music psychology.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- skill
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- opposite of
- relative pitch
- different from
- Pitch Perfect
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Encyclopedic overview
Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is the ability to identify or re-create a given pitch 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 a heard tone on a musical instrument without "hunting" for the correct pitch. However, pitch labelling is less common than pitch recall.
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