A distribution of absolute pitch ability as revealed by computerized testing

Music Perception

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 89-101

  Bermudez, Patrick ^a,b   Zatorre, Robert J ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BRAMS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Behavior; Computerized test; Distribution; Scoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 76849090997     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2009.27.2.89     Document Type: Article

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