Bibliography on absolute pitch (1980-1989)

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    + 1989

  1. EM Burns, SL Campbell, KE Hoberg (1989), "Is absolute pitch an exmaple of 'categorical perception'? ", in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, pp.421-424 (Kyoto, Japan).

  2. AR Halpern (1989), "Memory for the absolute pitch of familiar songs", Memory and Cognition, 17:572-581.

  3. K Miyazaki (1989), "Absolute pitch identification: effects of timbre and pitch region", Music Perception, 7:1-14.

  4. Suzanne C Page, Stewart H Hulse, Jeffrey Cynx (1989), "Relative pitch perception in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris): further evidence for an elusive phenomenon", Journal of Experimental Psychology, 15(2):137-146.
    [abstract]

  5. AH Takeuchi (1989), Absolute Pitch and Response Time: the Processes of Absolute Pitch Identification M.S. Thesis (Johns Hopkins University).

  6. RJ Zatorre (1989), "Unimpaired absolute pitch ability after left-temporal lobectomy", Cortex, 25:567-580.

  7. RJ Zatorre, C Beckett (1989), "Multiple coding strategies in the retention of musical tones by possessors of absolute pitch", Memory and Cognitition, 17(5):582-589.

    + 1988

  8. MR D'Amato (1988), "A search for tonal pattern perception in cebus monkeys: why monkeys can't hum a tune", Music Perception, 4:453-480.

  9. KA Ericsson, IA Faivre (1988), "What's exceptional about exceptional abilities?", in eds. LK Obler, D Fein, The Exceptional Brain (Guilford Press).

  10. Robert Frances (1988), The Perception of Music , 2nd edition (L Erlbaum). ISBN 0898596882 (1st edition was from 1958)
    [google book]

  11. Stewart H Hulse, Suzanne C Page (1988), "Toward a comparative psychology of music perception", Music Perception, 5:427-452.

  12. K Miyazaki (1988), "Musical pitch identification by absolute pitch possessors", Perception and Psychophysics, 44:501-512.
    [PDF]

  13. J Profita, TT Bidder (1988), "Perfect pitch", American Journal of Medical Genetics, 29:763-771.

  14. A Rakowski (1988), "An investigation of pitch of standards and categories in absolute pitch", Muzyka, 3:3-20.

  15. GF Welch (1988) "Observations on the incidence of absolute pitch (AP) ability in the early blind", Psychology of Music, 16:77-80.

    + 1987

  16. Nigel Harvey, Jeanette Garwood, Mario Palencia (1987), "Vocal matching of pitch intervals: Learning and transfer effects'", Psychology of Music, 15(1):90-106.
    [ abstract]

  17. BG Hill, MR Lein (1987), "Function of frequency-shifted songs of black capped chickadees", The Condor, 89:914-915.

  18. A Rakowski (1987), "In search for the criteria of absolute pitch", Archives of Acoustics, 12:75-87.

  19. George L. Rogers (1987), "Four cases of pitch-specific chromesthesia in trained musicians with absolute pitch", Psychology of Music, 15(2):198-207.
    [ abstract]

    + 1986

  20. D Deutsch (1986), "The perceived height of octave-related complexes", Journa of the Acoustic Society of America, 80:1346-1353.

  21. D Deutsch (1986), "A musical paradox", Music Perception, 3:275-280.

  22. David J Hargreaves (1986), The Developmental Psychology of Music (Cambridge University Press). ISBN 0521314151

    + 1985

  23. A Costall (1985), "The relativity of absolute pitch", Musical Structure and Cognition, in eds. P Howell, I Cross, R West Musical Structure and Cognition, pp. 189-208 (Academic Press, New York).

  24. Lola L. Cuddy (1985), "Colour Hearing: Some Comments", Psychology of Music, 13:133-134.

  25. Stewart H Hulse, Jeffrey Cynx (1985), "Relative pitch perception is constrained by absolute pitch in songbirds (Mimus, Molothrus, and Sturnus)", Journal of Comparative Psychology, 99:176-196.

  26. L Ratcliffe, RG Weinsman (1985), "Frequency shift in the fee bee song of the black-capped chickadee", The Condor, 87:555-556.

  27. John A Sloboda (1985), The Musical Mind (Clarendon Press).
    1986 Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198521286
    [google book]

    + 1984

  28. EH Goldman (1984), The Effect of Original and Electronically Altered Oboe, Clarinet, and French Horn Timbres on Absolute Pitch Judgments Ph.D Thesis (University of Oregon).

  29. Stewart H Hulse, Jeffrey Cynx, John Humpal (1984), "Absolute and relative pitch discrimination in serial pitch perception by birds", Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113(1):38-54.
    [abstract]

  30. Mark Klein, Micharl GH Coles, Emanuel Donchin (1984), "People with absolute pitch process tones without producing a P300", Science, 223(4642):1306-1309.
    [abstract]

    + 1983

  31. Lenore Block (1983), "Comparative Tone-Colour Responses of College Music Majors with Absolute Pitch and Good Relative Pitch", Psychology of Music, 11(2):59-66.
    [ abstract]

  32. E Terhardt, M Seewann (1983), "Aural key identification and its relationship to absolute pitch", Music Perception, 1:63-83.

    + 1982

  33. Diana Deutsch (1982), "The influence of melodic context on pitch recognition judgement", Perception and Psychophysics, 31(5):407-410.

  34. Y Oura, K Eguchi (1982), "Absolute pitch training program for children", Music Education Research, 32:162-171.

  35. E Terhardt, WD Ward (1982), "Recognition of musical key: 'exploratory study'", Journa of the Acoustic Society of America, 72:26-33.

  36. WD Ward, EM Burns (1982), "Absolute pitch", in ed. D Deutsch, The Psychology of Music (Academic Press, New York).

    + 1981

  37. Edward M Burns (1981), "Circularity in relative pitch judgments for inharmonic complex tones: the Shepard demonstration revisited, again", Perception and Psychophysics, 30(5):467-472.
    [PDF]

  38. Diana Deutsch, John Feroe (1981), "The internal representation of pitch sequences in tonal music", Psychological Review, 88(6):503-522.
    [abstract]

  39. GR Lockhead, R Byrd (1981), "Practically perfect pitch", Journa of the Acoustic Society of America, 70:137-146.
    [ abstract]
    [ difference between piano note and pure sine wave]