“InTune: a musician’s intonation visualization system”
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- InTune: a musician's intonation visualization system
Session/Category Title: See, Hear, Make, and Play
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A beloved music teacher taught us to embrace the “face the music” approach, in which we learn to hear ourselves as others hear us by listening to recordings. We apply the “face the music” approach to the practice of intonation — the precise tuning of frequencies corresponding to different musical pitches. While good intonation, “playing in tune,” is often neglected in the earliest years of musical practice, it is as essential a part of technique as the playing of fast notes or the control of emphasis. Intonation is also central to what some see as the illusion of tonal beauty — that is, for a sound to be beautiful it must commit itself clearly to the “correct” pitch. We introduce a system that allows musicians to visualize pitch in ways that leverage the centuries-long tradition of music notation, and are intuitive to the non-scientist.
