[Contribution to the study of the perfect pitch]

Author(s): Sposetti, R.

Journal/Book: Ann Otolaryngol Chir Cervicofac. 1990; 107: 371-6.

Abstract: Absolute pitch (AP) is the ability to name a note without any reference, since relative pitch (RP) needs for a previous and known tone to be able of such a recognition. We suggest that AP is due to both environmental features and physiological particularity. From the responses of 263 musicians including 169 AP we observed that for AP musical environment in childhood was better, and younger the age of instrumental beginning than for RP. The study of otoacustic emissions evoked by a supraliminar stimulation in 183 musicians ears including 68 AP showed that the echo was significantly greater in case of AP than in case of RP.

Note: Contribution a l'etude de l'oreille absolue.

Keyword(s): Adult ; Age Factors; Aged ; English Abstract; Environment ; Middle Age; Questionnaires ; Recruitment, Loudness physiopathology Attention ; Evoked Potentials, Auditory physiology; Hearing physiology; Music ; Pitch Perception Female; Human; Male

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