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	Learn more about Pitch (music) in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The relative pitches of individual notes in a scale may be determined by one of a number of tuning systems.
		Pitches are named with integers because of octave and enharmonic equivalency (for example, C# and Db are the same pitch while C4 and C5 are functionally the same).
		The pitch used for an English cathedral organ in the 17th century for example, could be as much as five semitones lower than that used for a domestic keyboard instrument in the same city.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/pi/pitch__music_.html (1559 words)

	Relative pitch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike absolute pitch (sometimes called "perfect pitch"), relative pitch is quite common among musicians, especially musicians who are used to "playing by ear".
		Also unlike perfect pitch, relative pitch is common among non-musicians and is quite possible to develop through ear training.
		Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch by having them associate each possible interval with the first two notes of a popular song; examples of this may be found at ear training.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Relative_pitch (388 words)

	Wikinfo \| Pitch (music)
		It must be noted that pitch is something we perceive, as opposed to frequency, the physical measurement of the vibration.
		Pitch can be adjusted by varying the tension of the string.
		Pitch is often cited as one of the fundamental aspects of music.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Pitch_(music) (1607 words)

	Pitch
		The perceived pitch of a sound is just the ear's response to frequency, i.e., for most practical purposes the pitch is just the frequency.
		The pitch perception of the human ear is understood to operate basically by the place theory, with some sharpening mechanism necessary to explain the remarkably high resolution of human pitch perception.
		Although for most practical purposes, the pitch of a sound can be said to be simply a measure of its frequency, there are circumstances in which a constant frequency sound can be perceived to be changing in pitch.
	hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu /hbase/sound/pitch.html (518 words)

	Learning Relative Pitch and Intervals
		For Relative Pitch, you are given a notation note, fret, and a sound, you are then given the sound of a second note and you must then enter the fret associated with this sound.
		Relative pitch is the ability to perceive a note based on a reference note.
		Relative pitch is something that we believe all people can develop with training.
	www.rubycliff.com /TheoryManual/LearnRPI.html (714 words)

	Born with the perfect pitch?
		Not surprisingly, the adults in her test all performed well on measures of relative pitch and poorly on absolute pitch.
		Saffran's lab developed a test to manipulate the pitches of songs to determine whether her learners were following absolute or relative pitch.
		With absolute pitch, it may be a case of use it or lose it.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-02/UoW-Bwtp-1802101.php (865 words)

	Theremin Vox - Relative pitch
		Unlike absolute pitch (sometimes inaccurately called "perfect pitch"), relative pitch is quite common among musicians, especially jazz musicians who are used to "playing by ear".
		Also unlike perfect pitch relative pitch is common among non-musicians and there's no doubt that it's possible to develop through practice.
		Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch by having them associate each possible interval with the first two notes of a popular song, examples of which may be found at ear training.
	www.thereminvox.com /article/view/101/1/29 (313 words)

	RPitch Relative Pitch Ear Training Software
		"Relative pitch" is the ability to recognize and name an interval (the distance between two musical notes) simply by hearing it.
		Unlike perfect pitch, which many claim cannot by acquired through training or practice, most people can attain a reasonably well-developed sense of relative pitch through practice and repeated drills.
		RPitch (pronounced "are pitch") is a feature-rich software program designed to help a user develop a sense of relative pitch.
	rpitch.sourceforge.net (296 words)

	Ch. One, III.11 Sight Reading, III.12 Relative/Perfect Pitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Relative pitch is the ability to identify a note, given a reference.
		Practice relative and absolute pitch at the same time; therefore, listen to the notes in your mind: the music, the emotions, the visualization of the keyboard, etc., will all help you to place the notes very close to the correct pitches on the piano.
		Practice relative pitch by first making sure that one note is correct (say the second note -- C#) by checking it on the piano, then mentally play a half tone down -- middle C, and check it with the piano.
	members.aol.com /chang8825/sreading.htm (5718 words)

	Does perfect absolute pitch spoil a listener for imperfect music? \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Persons who have absolute pitch may feel irritated when a piece is transposed to a different key or played at a nonstandard pitch.[30] They may fail to develop strong relative pitch when following standard curricula, despite the fact that maintaining absolute strategies can make simple relative tasks more difficult.
		I definitely don't have perfect pitch, but I feel really pained and uncomfortable if something is off-pitch relative to the tones surrounding it, like when the singer of a band is flat or sharp.
		Relative pitch is like a fl and white TV, where you get the structure of everything, the lines and shapes, the sizes and distances, but absolute pitch gives you the color.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/52142 (1928 words)

	UC Genetics of Absolute Pitch Study - Press
		Hundreds pitch in The goal of the UC study is to collect data on hundreds of individuals with perfect pitch.
		Ther is preliminary evidence perfect pitch is also genetic: It seems clustered in families, with several families recording the occurrence of perfect pitch among several siblings.
		A relatively small and isolated genetic pool in an ocean of human diversity, their inheritance patterns are more easily identified.
	perfectpitch.ucsf.edu /pppress.html (2097 words)

	Perfect Pitch Links
		It is likely that everyone is born with perfect pitch and then loses it as they grow older, for the simple reason that we do not need such a refined sense of hearing to go about our daily lives.
		is either the exact pitch of a note described by its number of vibrations per second, or the ability, commonly referred to as perfect pitch, to identify a note by name without the benefit of a reference note.
		Additionally, a two-component theory of absolute pitch is presented, which conceives of this rare ability as consisting of a more common ability, pitch memory, and a separate, less common ability, pitch labelling.
	www.perfectpitchpeople.com /links (1150 words)

	Hear and Play Music
		Someone with good relative pitch would know that a melody like C to E to G is utilizing the notes of a major chord, but might not know which major chord (because unlike perfect pitch, the exact note is unknown until you sit in front of a piano and determine it).
		If you told someone who had a good relative pitch what note you're starting on, they could very well follow you by listening to the distances and intervals between each note, calling out each chord (or note) as it is being played.
		Relative pitch is the ability to identify the intervals between tones and chords.
	www.hearandplay.com /Newsletters-August05.html (3195 words)

	Learning Notes, Harmonics, Perfect Pitch
		Perfect pitch is the ability to hear a single pitch, and determine its corresponding equivalent representations as per Chapter I. Perfect pitch is something that we believe all people can develop with training.
		We believe that it is actually more important to have and rely on "Relative Pitch", i.e., given a note, the ability to perceive another note a relative interval away.
		With tonal music, the main pitch that the other notes relate to is the tonic of the key that you are playing in, the music travels away from and returns to this central note.
	www.rubycliff.com /TheoryManual/LearnNHPP.html (863 words)

	Pitch (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound.
		This creates a linear pitch space in which octaves have size 12, semitones (the distance between adjacent keys on the piano keyboard) have size 1, and A440 is assigned the number 69.
		From the early 18th century, pitch could be also controlled with the use of tuning forks (invented in 1711), although again there was variation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitch_(music) (2532 words)

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		Whereas absolute pitch is an ability to identify pitches, relative pitch is an ability to identify the intervals between the tones.
		A relative pitch possessor needs to be given the value of the first presented tone to be used as a reference point to identify the rest of the presented pitches.
		In the absolute pitch test, the subjects were asked to identify the played tones whereas in the relative pitch test they were required to identify the function of each tone in relation to the reference tonic key.
	www.music.mcgill.ca /~pkoles/research/papers/abspitch.doc (3093 words)

	anyone have perfect/relative pitch? - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Relative pitch is where you can get close to a certain note- like I think that A/C hum is a b-flat.
		Relative pitch is broader and to a certain degree more useful.
		I don't have perfect pitch but I can still guess what a note is within a half step or so by simply relying on my singing range, and then beyond that relative pitch helps me do everything else.
	www.gamedev.net /community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=425246 (1987 words)

	perfect pitch software ear training for absolute pitch
		I do not believe this to be strictly true, although I agree that if a person has developed perfect pitch at a young age, they may not have developed a good sense of relative pitch, and if this is the case, that person would be disadvantaged as a singer.
		Such a person should be able to overcome their disadvantage by spending time to develop a good sense of relative pitch to go with their perfect pitch.
		I believe that if a person has a good sense of relative pitch and then develops perfect pitch, they will not be disadvantaged as a singer when they develop perfect pitch.
	www.vocalist.org /perfectpitch.html (852 words)

	Pitch perfect
		However, the study, coupled with research on infant pitch perception, suggests that absolute pitch--instead of being a rare, nearly magical ability--may be tied to early language development.
		In music, relative pitch generally plays a more important role than absolute pitch--as songs are frequently sung or transposed from one key to another, Saffran notes.
		However, pitch memory is only half of what goes into absolute pitch, says Gail Mauner, PhD, a professor of psychology and linguistics at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York.
	www.apa.org /monitor/feb05/pitch.html (1165 words)

	Relative pitch
		Unlike perfect pitch, relative pitch is quite common among musicians, especially jazz musicians who are used to "playing by ear".
		Also unlike perfect pitch, there's no doubt that it's possible to develop relative pitch by practice.
		Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch by having them associate each possible interval with the first two notes of a popular song.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/re/Relative_pitch.html (240 words)

	Absolute Pitch ear training software for learning perfect pitch
		Perfect pitch therefore differs from relative pitch, with which a musician can identify notes by using knowledge of the intervals between them.
		Musicians with extremely good relative pitch can give results indistinguishable from those having absolute pitch, but they are always at a disadvantage in having to hear a reference tone, such as Middle A, first.
		Having absolute pitch makes it easier for a composer or performer, especially of atonal music, to retain and hear complex melodies and harmonies in his or her head (Schoenberg mentions his ability in a letter; Boulez is well known for it).
	www.silvawood.co.uk /pitch-intro.htm (337 words)

	Relative pitch rules OK
		Relative pitch rules OK Perfect pitch - the ability to name any note one hears - has up to now been considered the ideal window upon the musical world.
		People with only relative pitch - the ability to finish the tune in roughly the right key if someone has started them off on the piano - have in an unspoken way been considered as in some way handicapped, and been accorded a nonvoting presence in the general run of musical things.
		The quasi-religious respect accorded to the faculty of perfect pitch is enshrined in the Western system of musical notation.
	improvise.free.fr /about.htm (712 words)

	Acoustical Society of America - Circularity in Pitch Judgement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the most widely used auditory illusions is Shepard's (1964) demonstration of pitch circularity, which has come to be known as the "Shepard Scale" demonstration.
		R. Shepard (1964), "Circularity in judgments of relative pitch," J. Acoust.
		E. Burns (1981), "Circularity in relative pitch judgments: the Shepard demonstration revisited, again," Perception and Psychophys.
	asa.aip.org /demo27.html (234 words)

	Born with the Perect Pitch?
		Uses the case of pefect pitch as the main topic.
		The Perfect Pitch - An excellent, comprehensive site developed by the University of California, San Fransisco, that discusses many topics pertaining to perfect pitch, especially the possibility of a genetic influence among perfect pitch possessors.
		Discusses the technicalities, history, and perception of absolute pitch, and pitch in general.
	www.zainea.com /perectpitch.htm (1491 words)

	Shepard's Tones
		In 1964, the psychologist Roger N. Shepard published a paper entitled Circularity in Judgements of Relative Pitch in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America [Shepard-64].
		The average spectral content therefore remains roughly the same as the increasing pitch of each component is offset by the diminishing contribution of the higher tones and increasing contribution of the lower ones.
		On the other hand, the pitch is not heard to fall in the transition from the twelfth tone to the first because the component in the middle at that point dominates the tone that disappears from the right end and reappears at the left.
	www.cs.ubc.ca /nest/imager/contributions/flinn/Illusions/ST/st.html (1025 words)

	Perfect Pitch and Relative Pitch
		Relative Pitch tells you the KIND of CHORD you are hearing.
		It is your sense of Relative Pitch that lets you understand the CHORD that is created with these tones.
		Relative Pitch groups the "LETTERS" of the musical alphabet into "words" and "phrases." In other words, it groups NOTES into chords, intervals, and progressions that you can easily understand and follow.
	www.perfectpitch.com /perfectrelative.htm (1008 words)

	Absolute Pitch / Relative Color (KEVIN AUSTIN )
		Since 'pitch' a function of frequency, and in certain cases amplitude and spectrum, how does the individual with "absloute pitch" determine whether the 'frequency' is the same, but the pitch perception has changed due to (say) an increase in amplitude.
		It strikes me that in both cases, the 'determinant' of absolute / relative pitch (sic) has just been pushed back one level in the perceptual system.
		His 'body' had 'absolute pitch' that his 'ear' was not "aware" of.
	www.auditory.org /postings/2001/379.html (1001 words)

	Training Software for Perfect Pitch
		Absolute pitch is not just a party trick of being able to "name notes." With solid ear training in absolute and relative pitch, you can easily pick apart any piece of music and know exactly what you've got.
		Absolute listeners identify a pitch by its "chroma"; therefore, the key to absolute listening is pitch chroma.
		We've known since the 1900s that chroma is the absolute quality of a musical pitch, and every absolute-pitch training method since the 1960s has attempted to train students to hear pitch chroma.
	www.aruffo.com /eartraining/software.htm (2257 words)

	Sound: To Pitch (ac)...
		A command that creates a Pitch object from every selected Sound object.
		The command described here is mainly for experimenting with the parameters, or for the analysis of non-speech signals, which may require different standard settings of the parameters.
		This parameter determines the effective length of the analysis window: it will be 3 longest periods long, i.e., if the pitch floor is 75 Hz, the window will be effectively 3/75 = 0.04 seconds long.
	www.fon.hum.uva.nl /praat/manual/Sound__To_Pitch__ac____.html (520 words)

	SSML 1.0: Candidate Recommendation Disposition of Comments
		However, different voices have different natural defaults for pitch, speaking rate, etc. because they represent different personalities, so absolute values of the prosodic parameters may vary across changes in the voice.
		Relative changes in prosodic parameters should be carried across voice changes.
		It is the author's responsibility to specify the relative change in the terms desired.
	www.w3.org /TR/2004/PR-speech-synthesis-20040715/ssml-disposition.html (1230 words)

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