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absolute pitch
absolute pitch the position of a tone in the musical scale determined according to its number of vibrations per second, irrespective of other tones. The term also denotes the capacity to identify any tone upon hearing it sounded alone or to sing any specified tone. Experiments have shown that this ... Read more
pitch
pitch in music, the position of a tone in the musical scale , today designated by a letter name and determined by the frequency of vibration of the source of the tone. Pitch is an attribute of every musical tone; the fundamental, or first harmonic , of any tone is perceived as its pitch. The earl... Read more
staff
staff in musical notation, a set of horizontal lines upon and between which notes are written so as to determine their relative pitch, and in connection with a clef, their absolute pitch. Staffs with several lines survive from the late 9th cent., the lines denoting only pitches. In early attempts a... Read more
serial music
serial music the body of compositions whose fundamental syntactical reference is a particular ordering (called series or row) of the twelve pitch classes—C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B—that constitute the equal-tempered scale. In contrast to tonal music, whose unity is perceive... Read more
musical notation
musical notation symbols used to make a written record of musical sounds. Two different systems of letters were used to write down the instrumental and the vocal music of ancient Greece. In his five textbooks on music theory Boethius (c.AD 470-AD 525) applied the first 15 letters of the alph... Read more
music
music For information on types of music see such articles as absolute music ; aleatory music ; chamber music ; church music ; computer music ; electronic music ; jazz ; program music ; rock music ; serial music ; and spiritual . In addition, see entries on the music of various nations an... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "absolute pitch"

absolute pitch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition absolute pitch the position of a tone in the musical scale determined according to its number of vibrations per second, irrespective of other...
pitch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition pitch in music, the position of a...of the source of the tone. Pitch is an attribute of every musical...any tone is perceived as its pitch. The earliest successful attempt...pitch of a tone, in contrast to absolute pitch , is an expression of...
musical notation
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...certain lines to indicate their pitch, and thereby the pitch of the remaining lines and spaces...in some languages for naming absolute pitches. A staff of five lines for...The essential problems in pitch notation, the use of both lines...
serial music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...chord), serial music is not pitch centric, i.e., there is...are the prime, retrograde (pitch order reversed), inversion...ordering of intervals and not of absolute pitches. In practice, the row can...and timbre, in addition to pitch. Important composers of serial...
staff
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...determine their relative pitch, and in connection with a clef, their absolute pitch. Staffs with several...lines denoting only pitches. In early attempts...idea of the relative pitches of the tones. Guido...them to indicate their pitch, thus foreshadowing...
Chinese music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the proper huang chung, or tone of absolute pitch. The huang chung was produced by...that roughly approximated the normal pitch of a man's voice. Other pipes...used symbols that represented the pitch names of the lüs. Players...
Native American music
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in general, characterized by a descending melodic figure; its rhythm is irregular. There is no conception of absolute pitch and intonation can appear uncertain, the result of the distinctive method of voice production, involving muscular...
geodesy and geodetic measurements
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...gravity measurements can be made in an absolute sense by measuring the time for a pellet...excess of 0.05 mgal/month, whereas absolute gravimeters can reach accuracies of 0...than those on land, first because of the pitch and roll of the ship, which cause unwanted...
JEWISH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Ashkenazic JE has numerous stylistic features, including those of pitch, amplitude, intonation, voice quality, and rate of speech...nebbish he is! ). (2) Some verbs are used in a nonstandard absolute way: Enjoy , enjoy ; Go figure ; I'm entitled . (3) The...
Glenn Gould
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...music at the age of three, discovered that he had perfect pitch at around the same time, and was composing small pieces when...noted German critic H. H. Stuckenschmidt hailed him as "an absolute genius, the greatest pianist since Busoni." End of His Concert...

Dictionary entries related to "absolute pitch"

absolute pitch (sense of)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music absolute pitch (sense of). That sense which some people possess of the...pitch may readily be acquired by practice, but the sense of absolute pitch much less easily. Absolute pitch is really an innate form of memory: the possessor retains...
absolute pitch
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable absolute pitch the ability to recognize the pitch of a note or produce any given note; also called perfect pitch.
perfect pitch
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English per·fect pitch • n. the ability to recognize the pitch of a note or to produce any given note; a sense of absolute pitch.
flat
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...completely definite and firm; absolute: his statement was a flat denial...sound) below true or normal pitch. ∎  [in...3. below the true or normal pitch of musical sound: it wasn...lowered a semitone below natural pitch. ∎  the...
Women Working in World War II (1941, by Peggy Terry)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...week. (Laughs.) To us it was just an absolute miracle. Before that, we made nothing...have a radio? Gosh, no. That was an absolute luxury. We were just moving around...off on the floor. Here we were in the pitch dark. Somebody was screaming, "Don...
hexachord
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...in use for the notes, but these were absolute names, as they are still, whereas the...moment: the sol-fa system (on its pitch side) may, indeed, be looked upon as...the term is applied to a coll. of 6 pitch classes considered either simultaneously...
Koenig, Karl Rudolph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...clock tuning fork used to determine the absolute frequency of sound sources by direct reference...fork to establish in 1859 the standard of pitch for music known as the “ diapason...was adopted in 1891 as the international pitch of A = 435 cycles per second. A pioneer...

Thesaurus entries related to "absolute pitch"

black
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...x2022; adjective   1. a black horse synonyms : dark, pitch-black, jet-black, coal-black, ebony, sable, inky...and-white terms synonyms : categorical, unequivocal, absolute, uncompromising, unconditional, unqualified, unambiguous...

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Contributions of temporal and place cues in pitch perception in absolute pitch possessors
Magazine article from: Perception and Psychophysics; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Pitch perception is determined...used differs depending on absolute pitch capability, pitch...subjects performed relative pitch identification tasks in which...with different degrees of absolute pitch were compared. We conducted...
'An absolute disgrace' - Jose's pitch verdict.
Newspaper article from: Leamington Spa Courier (Leamington Spa, England); 1/4/2007; 581 words ; ...that manager Jose Ascensao branded an absolute disgrace . Defeat to fellow strugglers...Saturdays due to the dreadful Townsend Meadow pitch this winter. And he called the playing...wrestling . He added: It was a disgrace - an absolute disgrace. The match should never have...
Portable pitch absolute sizzler
Newspaper article from: The Press; 2/19/2007; ; 488 words ; ...groundsman Mark Perham's portable pitch deserves just as many kudos. After years...too juicy, too slow -- Perham had the pitch cooked to perfection, and a breathtaking...captain Michael Hussey called it the best pitch he has played a one-day international...
Council must tell us what it saw as racist ; To brand Bryan Lee a 'racist' for objecting to a proposed travellers' pitch near his property is an absolute disgrace, on several counts, Pensioner's fury at racist claim in planning row, Echo, June 1.
Newspaper article from: Express & Echo (Exeter UK); 6/3/2009; 468 words ; ...Lee a 'racist' for objecting to a proposed travellers' pitch near his property is an absolute disgrace, on several counts, Pensioner's fury at racist...had to be spent to tidy up damage and mess caused by these pitches. One could speak to the people who manage and use Haldon...
`PERFECT PITCH' IS NOT SO RARE.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/5/1999; 554 words ; ...an ability called relative pitch, the ability to place them on an absolute scale is much less common. Absolute or perfect pitch turns up in no more than one...relative rather than absolute pitch, the researchers, led by...words at the same absolute pitches to within ...
Many babies lose perfect pitch
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 11/7/1999; ; 497 words ; ...an ability called relative pitch, the ability to place them on an absolute scale is much less common. Perfect pitch turns up in no more than one...relative rather than absolute pitch, the researchers, led by...words at the same absolute pitches to within fractions of a ...
HEAR THAT? PERFECT PITCH MAY BE THE KEY TO UNLOCKING GENETIC MYSTERIES.(U)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 3/11/2002; 700+ words ; ...critical time.'' Giving their pitch The UCLA/UCSF study is still largely...seem to have several instances of absolute pitch within their immediate family...were when they realized they had absolute pitch. A blood sample or cheek...
HEAR THAT? PERFECT PITCH INTRIGUES GENETIC RESEARCHERS.(ARTS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/24/2002; 700+ words ; ...critical time.'' Giving their pitch Gitschier and Freimer are particularly...seem to have several instances of absolute pitch within their immediate family...were when they realized they had absolute pitch. A blood sample or cheek swab...
Taking note of perfect pitch
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 3/13/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...sounds so wrong to people with perfect pitch that they may be unable to keep singing...jarring makes a person wonder: Just how absolute does this sense of pitch have to be to be considered absolute? In the United States, the A above middle...
Researchers seeking secret of perfect pitch Scientists hope to identify gene for rare musical skill
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/20/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...between. Known as "perfect" or "absolute" pitch, it's a rare ability in adults...study of people with absolute pitch found 43 percent of siblings also...experts argue that the quest for an absolute pitch gene is akin to searching for...