It's been a long-held belief that absolute pitch -- the ability to identify musical notes without reference -- is a rare gift reserved for a select few with special genetic gifts or those who began ...

SOME time ago there appeared in the newspapers a story that brought an old problem into new focus. According to that story, French musicians were making an organized appeal to the world to stop the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I was aged about nine when my parents proposed me for a Saturday morning school for young musicians. The head ...

University of Surrey provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Absolute pitch has long been viewed as a kind of musical superpower. It refers to the ability to identify or produce ...