User:Rainwarrior/People with absolute pitch
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- This page preserves the deleted Category:People with absolute pitch of January 28, 2007.
A list of people who possess Absolute pitch, also known as perfect pitch.
When adding to this list, please cite a reference below.
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- Claudio Arrau: "[T]he boy [6-year-old Arrau] had yet another surprise in store for us. He got down from the piano stool to eat some candy and, between one treat and another, the musicians played chords to him, up to ten notes at a time. With his back to the music, he identified the chords perfectly, note for note, the way you and I name household objects." [Joseph Horowitz: Arrau on Music and Performance (1999), ISBN 0486408469.
- Bill Bailey: "Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch as it's sometimes called, occurs entirely at random in about one in every 10,000 of us, and I'm one of them" [1]
- Leonard Bernstein: "Born With It: . . . Leonard Bernstein . . ." [2]
- Michelle Branch: "Like Yanni and Paul Shaffer, she possesses the rare trait known as absolute pitch." [3]
- Benjamin Britten: Britten: Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1, Letter 10 [to his mother] (1991), ISBN 0520065204.
- Mariah Carey: "Luckily, she discovered the art of singing and had a natural talent for it. Having perfect pitch, she could sing back exactly what she heard at the age of four." [4]
- Ray Charles: Had perfect pitch according to the American Masters series on his life on PBS.
- Celine Dion: "Born With It: . . . Celine Dion . . ." [5]
- Marc-Andre Hamelin: "Having perfect pitch helps," he said. "Automatically, you have a better musical brain."" [6]
- Taylor Hicks: "I would find...the key that an airplane flying overhead was in or the sound of a running car...I would start playing off different sounds that I heard around my house and repeat solos that I heard on a record or the radio without practicing them." [7]
- Vladimir Horowitz: "Born With It: . . . Vladimir Horowitz . . ." [8]
- Michael Jackson: "Born With It: . . . Michael Jackson . . ." [9]
- Alexa Ray Joel: "She had perfect pitch as a baby." (Billy Joel) [10]
- Eric Johnson: Guitarist with legendary perfect pitch. Is able to accurately tell what brand of battery is being used in an electronic pedal by nothing more than the minute tone it effects upon the notes. [11]
- Dmitri Nabokov: "My "la", or "A" (the note) was also red, but with a life of its own, independent of its name in this or that language. By the same token, the "ut", as middle C is sometimes called, is only a slightly sandier shade of yellow than the letter "C". [12]
- Sviatoslav Richter: Monsaingeon: Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations (2001), ISBN 0691074380.
- Shakira: "Her perfect pitch and complete focus allow her to ensure that she and her musicians get every note exactly right." [13]
- Nicolas Slonimsky: "It was discovered early in my life that I possessed the precious gift of perfect pitch...". Slonimsky: Perfect Pitch, an Autobiography (2002), p.4. ISBN 0825672740.
- Joseph Stalin: "Music of all sorts mattered to him; he had perfect pitch..." [14]
- Scott Storch: "'[Scott] is one of the few people I've run across in the world who has perfect pitch,' Wayne the Brain [Storch's engineer] says." [15]
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: "The boy showed the perfect pitch and remarkable musical memory." [16]
Category:Giftedness es:Categoría:Personas con oído absoluto
Pages in category "People with absolute pitch"
There are 89 pages in this section of this category.
A
* Julie Andrews * Lera Auerbach * Christopher Auerbach-Brown
B
* Bill Bailey * Fantasia Barrino * Béla Bartók * Ludwig van Beethoven * Michael Bland * Michelle Branch * Benjamin Britten * James Brown * Roy Budd * Buffalo Bob Smith * Bumblefoot
C
* Mariah Carey * Ray Charles * Chevy Chase * Frédéric Chopin * Nat King Cole * Bing Crosby
D
* Daniel Gildenlöw * Diana Deutsch * Madeleine Dring
F
* Mia Farrow * Tiziano Ferro * Ella Fitzgerald * Tom Fox (singer-songwriter)
G
* Charly García * Glenn Gould
H
* Marc-André Hamelin * George Frideric Handel * Jascha Heifetz * Taylor Hicks * Vladimir Horowitz
J
* Michael Jackson * Jeff Martin (Canadian musician) * Alexa Ray Joel * Billy Joel * Elton John * Eric Johnson
K
* Erich Wolfgang Korngold
L
* Phil Lesh * Franz Liszt
M
* Yo-Yo Ma * Tony MacAlpine * Yngwie J. Malmsteen * Lata Mangeshkar * Tyson Mao * Tommy Mars * Freddie Mercury * Spike Milligan * Brian Stokes Mitchell * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * Jason Mraz
N
* Jay Nordlinger
P
* Niccolò Paganini * Charlie Parker * André Previn
R
* A. R. Rahman
R cont.
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov * Jordan Rudess * Ruslana
S
* Camille Saint-Saëns * Lynn Carey Saylor * Arnold Schoenberg * Phil Seaman * Paul Shaffer * Paul Schäfer * Shakira * Frank Sinatra * Nicolas Slonimsky * Konstantin Soukhovetski * Phil Spector * Joseph Stalin * Scott Storch * Barbra Streisand * Donna Summer
T
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky * Bruno Thériault * Chris Tucker * Tina Turner
V
* Steve Vai * Video Game Pianist
W
* Hayley Westenra * Brian Wilson * Ludwig Wittgenstein * Stevie Wonder * Amy Wright
Y
* Yanni
