Diversity of accuracy profiles for absolute pitch recognition

Psychology of Music

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-93

  Bahr, Nan ^a   Christensen, Carol A ^a   Bahr, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aaural development; Aural perception; Perfect pitch

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049155670     PISSN: 03057356     EISSN: 17413087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305735605048014     Document Type: Article

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