Pitch and Intonation: Part II

Описание: I've gotten a lot of questions on pitch and intonation-related topics, so I finally had time to make a video series about it! This 4-part series is less heavy on the science and more heavy on practical application.

Part I: The first part of this series covers the basic skills that go into playing in tune including pitch discrimination, singing, and audiation and how to work on each one.
Part II: This part dives into the importance of anticipating the pitch, physical placement, and resonance of any given note before playing it and how to practice these skills on the instrument.
Part III: The third part goes over more helpful practice methods for playing in tune.
Part IV: This is a whole video for string players about practicing double stops. It's one of the most challenging skills we do on the instrument and is something I get lots of questions about.

If you're interested in more of the science behind pitch perception, I created a self-paced mini-course on this topic: https://mollygebrian.thinkific.com/co...

A little bit on my background:
I attended Oberlin College and Conservatory as an undergraduate, double majoring in viola performance and neuroscience. The neuroscience was just for fun (truly!) and I had no plans to continue with it after I graduated. But when I got to New England Conservatory for my masters in viola performance, I realized something was missing. After my roommate came home from being a subject in a study at Harvard looking at musicians’ versus non-musicians’ brains, I realized I had to be a double degree student my whole life. So at NEC, I did a number of independent studies looking at topics having to do with music and the brain, as well as working for Dr. Mark Tramo, the director of the Institute for Music and Brain Science, at that time at Harvard (now at UCLA). After NEC, I attended the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University for my DMA in viola performance. While there, I took graduate-level neuroscience classes nearly every semester, I worked in a lab for a long time, I was the assistant director for two interdisciplinary symposia on music and the brain, and I developed and taught a class on music and the brain. Since that time, I have published several articles in both music and scientific journals on music and the brain (many of which you can access on my website: https://mollygebrian.com/writing/) and give presentations on the topic regularly at conferences, universities, and schools around the world. From 2014-2024, I was a collegiate viola professor, teaching at universities in Wisconsin and Arizona. In fall 2024, I joined the faculty at New England Conservatory of Music, teaching classes and workshops on the science of practicing, as well as working with students one-on-one to improve their practicing effectiveness.