Re: any examples of acquired absolute pitch?

[Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try:
Paul T. Brady (1970).

Teach Yourself Absolute Pitch in 365 Hard Lessons, JASA, 48,
88-ff.

Pierre

At 02:41 AM 4/18/2008, Anthony Knittel wrote:
> Hi, i've found some interesting
> comments on absolute pitch on this mailing list and was wondering if
> anyone has heard of any examples of people who have acquired absolute
> pitch somehow during their later lives, ie not in early childhood
> development.
>
> There is a clear trend between absolute pitch (AP) and autism, and many
> autistic savants with musical talents (which tend to be more in terms of
> music reproduction ability than creative composition) that have been
> examined also have AP. There are numerous examples of people who have
> acquired special abilities such as those exhibited by autistic savants as
> a result of injury or other non-developmental processes. I haven't
> however heard of any examples of people who have acquired AP later in
> life, it would be very useful if anyone knows of any examples.
>
> There are suggestions that AP development is an independent process that
> is present in autistic and non-autistic people, and that presence of AP
> is pre-requisite for development of special musical abilities for
> savants. This model would suggest that cases of later-life AP development
> would be unlikely, however if there are any examples of people developing
> AP later in life for example through brain injury, similar to how
> savant-like special abilities have been shown to be developed
> (essentially spontaneously), it would be very useful.
>
>
>
> thanks
>
> Anthony
>
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>
> a couple of references:
>
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> <
> http://www.brams.umontreal.ca/plab/publications/article/32>Absolute
>  pitch in autism: a case study, L Mottron, I Peretz, S Belleville, N
> Rouleau - Neurocase, 1999
>
> Musical savants: exceptional skill in the mentally retarded, Miller L K,
> Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989: 266
>
> Absolute pitch in blind musicians, Roy H. Hamilton, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
> and Gottfried Schlaug, NeuroReport Vol 15 No 5, 9 April 2004
>
>
>
>
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