The Role of Absolute Pitch Memory in the Oral Transmission of Folksongs

Absolute Pitch (AP) is the ability to identify or produce isolated tones in the absence of contextual cues or reference pitches. While AP is thought to differ from other human abilities in its bimodal distribution (Takeuchi & Hulse, 1993) – either you have it or you do not – recent evidence sugg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Merwin Olthof, Berit Janssen, Henkjan Honing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2015-12-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v10i3.4435