Absolute pitch and its implications for music

Archives of Acoustics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 529-540

  Miyazaki, Ken'ichi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Early learning; Melody; Music perception; Music training

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ABSOLUTE PITCH; EARLY LEARNING; HARMONIC STRUCTURES; MUSIC PERCEPTION; MUSIC TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 39649100858     PISSN: 01375075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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