Absolute Pitch and Its Significance in the System of Musical Communication

assistant lecturer at the Institute of Musicology of Warsaw University. In 2008 she gained her PhD from Warsaw University for the dissertation Występowanie różnych rodzajów słuchu absolutnego w środowisku młodzieży polskich szkół muzycznych [The prevalence of various kinds of absolute pitch among students of Polish music schools]. Her interests include psychoacoustics and music psychology and sociology. She has contributed to the periodicals Archives of Acoustics, Ruch Muzyczny and Twoja Muza. She has also participated in many research projects realised in cooperation with the Department of Music Acoustics of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

professor at the Department of Musicology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and retired professor of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. His main field of research is the acoustics and psychoacoustics of music, particularly the problems of pitch and timbre perception. He is the author of over two hundred research articles and monographs, including Kategorialna percepcja wysokości dźwięku w muzyce [The categorial perception of pitch in music] (Warsaw, 1978). He was also editor of Studia nad wysokością i barwą dźwięku w muzyce [Studies on pitch and timbre in music] (Warsaw, 1999) and Kształtowanie i percepcja sekwencji dźwięków muzycznych [The shaping and perception of sequences of musical notes] (Warsaw, 2001). He is an ordinary member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and honorary president of its Acoustical Committee.