Is the memory of absolute pitch capable of development by training?
Originally published in Psychological Review, Volume 6, pages 514-6, 1899 Max Meyer, Clark University. The experiments the results of which I am going to report here were made in Berlin during the time from March to October, 1895, jointly by Dr. Victor Heyfelder and myself. I did not publish them earlier, because I expected to make a complete investigation into the memory of absolute pitch. After having given up this intention I shall describe those experiments separately. The theoretically important question is: whether human beings are to be divided into two classes, one of them enjoying a memory of absolute pitch, the other wanting it, or whether there is but a gradual difference in memory of absolute pitch, some people needing more, some less practice to obtain an equal facility. Should the former be true, we would have to assume that the first class possesses a physiological property, the lack of which prevents the others from acquiring that mental faculty. But it would be very di
