Absolute pitch

  • Absolute pitch,  Music & Language

    How does musical background affect absolute pitch ability?

    Article of the day: Vanzella, P & Schellenberg, E.G (2010) Absolute Pitch: Effetcs of timbre of note naming ability. PLoS One, 5 (11), e15449. (FREE TO ACCESS!) Today I was alerted to a new article published in PloS One on the subject of Absolute Pitch (AP). I have always been interested in this musical skill – mostly because it is something I don’t seem to possess despite having started my music lessons at a very young age. Not that this torments me on a daily basis you understand! – But I would like to know more about why some people have it and some don’t, and how possession of this ability…