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Memory types

Depending on the fact whether we engage sight, hearing, analytical thinking or a motor organ in the process of memorisation – we call such a method: visual, auditory, logical or motor memory. It does not mean, however, that a given individual is to be attributed with only one particular memory...

Acquisition – memorisation stage

Acquisition is memorisation – which is a process of creating musical imagination and committing full musical image to memory, including all its elements: formal construction, melodic pattern, cadence, harmony, dynamics, tempo, articulation, all the performer’s emotions, as well as all the movements required for its production. If one is to...

Those who happen to experience memory problems, the so-called “memory blanks” in a musical image, know best how important it is for a musician to be able to memorise and retrieve from memory various music pieces. The awareness of the blank appearing in one’s mind causes panic, nervousness, or at times puts a...