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Definition of Perfect pitch

1. Noun. The ability to identify the pitch of a tone.

Definition of Perfect pitch

1. Noun. (music) The ability to identify a note by name without the benefit of a reference note. ¹

2. Noun. (context: less common) The exact pitch of a note described by its frequency in vibrations per second. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Perfect pitch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1854)
"The perfect pitch-coal which occurs in many brown-coal beds, as at Meissner, in Hesse, may, therefore, have been exposed to circumstances which admitted of ..."

2. The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution by Alexander Wilford Hall (1880)
"... while the string itself, not a thousandth part as large in area, retains its perfect pitch, mastering and annihilating that of its powerful coadjutor! ..."

3. Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence by David Weissman (1977)
"Consider a series of notes that is played in perfect pitch. Every note, from the lowest to ever higher pitches ..."

4. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1863)
"... the 15th, they went to a towne about 5 miles from thence, called Pitchford, of a well in a private man's yarde thir, out of which commeth perfect pitch. ..."

5. Johannes Brahms: The Herzogenberg Correspondence by Johannes Brahms, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Elisabeth Herzogenberg (1909)
"How your soul must have rejoiced when that first line came to you, which captivates us so promptly and charms our ear by its perfect pitch, bathing us in ..."

6. The Musical World (1853)
"The unaccompanied quartet, " Quando Corpus," was sung in perfect pitch. Mme. Sontag sang " I know that my Redeemer liveth," as so consummate an artist could ..."

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