A study of the pitches produced by violinists while playing a short piece of music
M. V. Mathews, Joan E. Miller · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1981
Computer recordings were made of the pitches produced by four violinists playing a section of a Mozart (G Major) violin-piano sonata and a G Major scale. Twelve repetitions of the scale and sonata were recorded. The sonata was played with a recorded piano accompaniment. Selected notes in the recorded material were analyzed to study the variation in pitch from repetition-to-repetition of the same note, variation in pitch in different parts of the note, and to observe the pitch variations produced by vibrato. The pitch transitions between successive notes were also observed.