Comments on: To memorize or not to memorize http://blog.oup.com/2013/01/music-memory-performance/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 22 May 2013 12:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Bob Dylan - A first listen | OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2013/01/music-memory-performance/#comment-370048 Bob Dylan - A first listen | OUPblog Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:30:43 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=34871#comment-370048 [...] I don’t remember much from my diaper-wearing days (but we’ve already gone over how terrible my memory [...] [...] I don’t remember much from my diaper-wearing days (but we’ve already gone over how terrible my memory [...]

]]> By: Meg Wilhoite http://blog.oup.com/2013/01/music-memory-performance/#comment-354810 Meg Wilhoite Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:48:16 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=34871#comment-354810 Thanks for reading, Gerald, and for passing along your own take on this topic! Thanks for reading, Gerald, and for passing along your own take on this topic!

]]> By: Gerald Klickstein http://blog.oup.com/2013/01/music-memory-performance/#comment-354773 Gerald Klickstein Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:00:36 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=34871#comment-354773 Thanks Meghann for sharing your personal issues with memorization. So many aspiring musicians experience similar challenges that I conclude there's more going on here than an individual's propensity to memorize. Rather, I believe that our traditions of music education often create memorization difficulties among students due in part to the lack of instruction in deep practice methods that would facilitate learning, memorization, and secure performance. Nonetheless, I share your view that pianists shouldn't feel compelled to memorize every solo, and I riff on that idea further in my recent article, "Should Soloists Always Perform from Memory?" http://musiciansway.com/blog/2013/01/should-soloist-always-perform-from-memory/ Thanks Meghann for sharing your personal issues with memorization. So many aspiring musicians experience similar challenges that I conclude there’s more going on here than an individual’s propensity to memorize. Rather, I believe that our traditions of music education often create memorization difficulties among students due in part to the lack of instruction in deep practice methods that would facilitate learning, memorization, and secure performance.

Nonetheless, I share your view that pianists shouldn’t feel compelled to memorize every solo, and I riff on that idea further in my recent article, “Should Soloists Always Perform from Memory?” http://musiciansway.com/blog/2013/01/should-soloist-always-perform-from-memory/

]]> By: Rebecca Frodsham http://blog.oup.com/2013/01/music-memory-performance/#comment-354727 Rebecca Frodsham Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:17:05 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=34871#comment-354727 When memorising a piece, all sense of restriction is removed, until you have memorised a piece it's external, once it's commited to your memory it is always at your fingertips wherever you go. I'm a classical and jazz singer and as soon as I get a piece, I learn it accurately and commit it to memory within a few days- then the real work starts. Given, with piano this process takes somewhat longer but I go about the process in the same way. When memorising a piece, all sense of restriction is removed, until you have memorised a piece it’s external, once it’s commited to your memory it is always at your fingertips wherever you go. I’m a classical and jazz singer and as soon as I get a piece, I learn it accurately and commit it to memory within a few days- then the real work starts. Given, with piano this process takes somewhat longer but I go about the process in the same way.

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