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Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. [1] [2] AP may be demonstrated using linguistic labelling ("naming" a note), associating mental imagery with the note, or sensorimotor responses.
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Pitch correction is an electronic effects unit or audio software that changes the intonation (highness or lowness in pitch) of an audio signal so that all pitches will be notes from the equally tempered system (i.e., like the pitches on a piano). Pitch correction devices do this without affecting other aspects of its sound.
There are also software projects underway or completed geared to ear training or to assist in microtonal performance. Gro Shetelig at The Norwegian Academy of Music is working on the development of a Microtonal Ear Training method for singers [ 4 ] and has developed the software Micropalette, [ 5 ] a tool for listening to microtonal tones ...
Tonal memory may be used as a strategy for learning to identify musical tones absolutely. Although those who attempt the strategy believe they are learning absolute pitch, the ability is generally not musically useful, [3] and their absolute tonal memory declines substantially or completely over time if not constantly reinforced. [4]
Simple tuners indicate—typically with an analog needle or dial, LEDs, or an LCD screen—whether a pitch is lower, higher, or equal to the desired pitch. Since the early 2010s, software applications can turn a smartphone, tablet, or personal computer into a tuner. [1] More complex and expensive tuners indicate pitch more precisely.
Since absolute pitch is rare in European musical culture, [1] claims that any particular musician possessed it are difficult to evaluate. Among composers of the Baroque and Classical eras, evidence is available only for Mozart , who is documented to have demonstrated the ability at age 7. [ 1 ]
If the generative tone is inharmonic, like a bell-like sound, the interval structure is still recognizable as displacements of a tone spectrum, whose pitch can be even undetectable. This optimal representation-based definition of a chord explains, among other things, the predominance of interval hearing over the absolute pitch hearing. [9] [10]