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Relative pitch

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The term perfect pitch denotes either

  • the distance of a musical note from a set point of reference, e.g. "three octaves above middle C"; or
  • the skill used by singers to correctly sing a melody, following musical notation, by pitching each note in the melody according to its distance from the previous note.

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