...Patrick Thomas Brady Caldera; Héctor Archilla-Segade Stringed instruments are known to be flexible regarding intonation. This suppleness is arguably at the root of the many discussions concerning tuning and intonation that have taken place in the past. Historical authors have, depending on the era...

...: ratios of psychologically implausible large numbers. Performers do not switch between two ratios of one interval (e.g., 5:4 and 81:64 for the major third), modern studies of performance intonation show no consistent preferences for specific ratios, and no known brain mechanism is sensitive to ratios...

...Richard A. Warren; Meagan E. Curtis The belief that intonation accuracy is a key determinant of musical performance quality is ubiquitous in music pedagogy; nonetheless, empirical validation of this belief is lacking. We investigated the effects of intonation accuracy on perceived performance...

... of California 2014 acoustical analyses music experts operatic technique singing intonation THE EVALUATION OF VOCAL PITCH ACCURACY: THE CASE OF OPERATIC SINGING VOICES PAULINE LARROUY-MAESTRI, DAVID MAGIS, & DOMINIQUE MORSOMME University of Lie`ge, Lie`ge, Belgium THE OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF WESTERN...

... by singing with correct accompaniment. Taken together, findings suggested that poor-pitch singing results from mismapping of pitch onto action, rather than problems specific to perceptual,motor, or memory systems. © 2007 By the Regents of the University of California singing tone deafness intonation...