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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.
Communication ability Speed of reasoning Associative fluency Visual memory Maintaining and judging rhythms Writing speed/fluency Writing ability Grammatical sensitivity Expressional fluency Spatial scanning Musical discrimination and judgement Writing speed Oral production & fluency Originality Serial perceptual integration Absolute pitch
Functional pitch recognition is not the same as fixed-do solfège, e.g. do, re, mi, etc. Functional pitch recognition emphasizes the role of a pitch with respect to the tonic, while fixed-do solfège symbols are labels for absolute pitch values (do=C, re=D, etc., in any key).
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...
Vocal range is the range of pitches that a human voice can phonate.A common application is within the context of singing, where it is used as a defining characteristic for classifying singing voices into voice types. [1]
Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted, and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonology and phonetics in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology.
Pitch (music), the perceived frequency of sound including "definite pitch" and "indefinite pitch" Absolute pitch or "perfect pitch" Pitch class, a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart; Relative pitch, the ability to identify a given musical interval between two notes; Pitch accent, a form of accentuation in speech
Psychoacoustics is the branch of psychophysics involving the scientific study of the perception of sound by the human auditory system.It is the branch of science studying the psychological responses associated with sound including noise, speech, and music.