relative pitch love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The pitch of a tone as determined by its position in a scale.
  • noun The ability to recognize or produce a tone by mentally establishing a relationship between its pitch and that of a recently heard tone.

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