A Longitudinal Study of a Process for Acquiring Absolute Pitch

Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-27

  Sakakibara, Ayako ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Longitudinal study; Strategies to identify pitch; Tone height and tone chroma; Training process of absolute pitch

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033432994     PISSN: 00215015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5926/jjep1953.47.1_19     Document Type: Article

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