Volume 10, May 2019
Intonation in the Performance of the Double Bass: The Role of Vision and Tact in Undershoot and Overshoot Patterns

by Fausto Borém and Guilherme Menezes Lage

About the Authors

Fausto Borém
School of Music
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Guilherme Menezes Lage
School of Physical Education
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

First Brazilian to earn a Doctorate on Double Bass, Fausto Borém is the leader, composer and arranger of "Musa Brasilis Ensemble". He has presented recitals and lectures at ISB Conventions since 1993 and in several festivals in Europe. In Brazil, he teaches Bachelor, Masters and Doctorate bass students at UFMG (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), where he developed the Music Graduate Program and Per Musi, a top indexed scholarly journal. He has won several awards in both double bass performance ("2009 Brazilian Diapason D'or" with the "Juiz de Fora International Baroque Orchestra"; "São Paulo City Orchestra Soloists", 2007; 1st Prize in the "Jan Fowler Competition", 1983; 2nd Prize in the "Brazilian National Strings Competition", 1982), teaching ("UGA Teaching Assistant Award", 1993) and scholarly writing (Grand Prize in the "2018 ISB Research Competition," Honor Prize in the "2016 ISB Research Competition"). He has accompanied international performers in both classical (Yo‐Yo Ma, Midori, Menahem Pressler, Yoel Levi, Fábio Mechetti, and Arnaldo Cohen) and popular scenes (Hermeto Pascoal, Egberto Gismonti, Henry Mancini, Bill Mays, Grupo UAKTI and Toninho Horta). He has recorded five CDs with the "Juiz de Fora International Baroque Orchestra" and one Cd with the "Amazonas Baroque Orchestra". He has published dozens of works for the double bass, including the restoration of the 1838 "Double bass" manuscript and three songs by Afro-Brazilian Lino José Nunes and the 1898 manuscript of "Impromptu" for bass and piano by Leopoldo Miguez.

Guilherme M. Lage, holds a PhD in Neuroscience from UFMG (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Brazil, where he is Full Professor in the Department of Physical Education, where he teaches Bachelor, Masters and Doctorate students. His research focuses on the relationships between motor behavior and neurobiology and also several interdisciplinary studies involving Physical Education, Music, and Acoustics.