Talking to people who have developed "Perfect Pitch" (via working out how far they were off and adjusting!) and people with training in music, they tell me that you can not test for this. The only way to find out if someone has PP is to teach them the theory of music. Then, after a while, they will start demonstrating their skill and power though the theory and aural tests.
It is unlikely that we can really identify these sorts of people until some years into their study-so primary school would be the earlies.
It would be nice to have a test that identified perfect pitch, then like the original idea behind the Binet IQ test, you could only direct resources at those people "intelligent' enough to benefit from it.
However we may now have a different idea of what "education" is, than in 1900.
See also
http://hypography.com/forums/music-s...-test-for.html
Just checked Wiki for dates. They say Binet developed the test to identify slow learners and to help them. That's not how I remember it. The French Government wanted not to waste time ond money on the "dumb" ones.
Funny the idea of the test is so pervasive now; yet we still don't know what it tests or what the gross score is a predictor for. We do know that people with perfect pitch sail untroubled though the waters of music theory while others struggle.
"An Intelligence Test tests what an Intelligence Test tests."
Dates?-- contracted 1904, first test 1909-11
