It’s the rare ability that allows me to put a note to every sound that I hear, and I mean every sound. For example, I will hear a bird chirp and think to myself, “Oh, that’s G sharp!” My perfect pitch ...

Play a note, any note — on your piano, your harp, your synthesizer, your kazoo. University of Delaware junior David Krall can tell you exactly which note you’re playing and which octave it lives in.

Perfect pitch refers to a person’s ability to identify any musical note by name after hearing it, without reference to other notes. Perfect pitch—also known more technically as absolute pitch—can also ...

When Mariah Carey belts out a glass-shattering high note, it's impossible for most listeners to identify the tone. Not for her. Carey possesses perfect or absolute pitch (AP), the ability to identify ...

Mariah Carey, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Mozart, Beethoven, Jimi Hendrix, and Yanni. What do these musicians have in common? They’re all said to have perfect pitch. Perfect pitch (technically known ...

Both light and sound travel as waves, with characteristics that allow people with typical vision and hearing to perceive and categorize them when they reach their eyes and ears: “That’s a small red ...

Mozart and Beethoven are both said to have had it. The same is said of Mariah Carey. Now a study suggests that some adults may be able to learn perfect pitch in just a few weeks of training. Many ...

Once when I was about 7 years old, my mother—as she did every night after tucking me in—sang me a song. Usually I would listen without complaint, but since I was a difficult child, this night, I felt ...

When Mariah Carey belts out a glass-shattering high note, it's impossible for most listeners to identify the tone. Not for her. Carey possesses perfect or absolute pitch (AP), the ability to identify ...