Memorization: Strategies and Learning Habits with Dr. Antonella Di Giulio
Mozart & Haydn - Music from the 18th Century
We often think that memorizing a piece of music only requires repetitions. What if you could find a more effective way to memorize not only the music written in the 18th century but practically any type of piece?
In this workshop, we will talk about the several strategies you can implement in your memorization as a general learning habit.
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Antonella Di Giulio I used to memorize all my pieces as the final step in the learning process, but I would have trouble going back to the piece a few months later- even with the score. To counter this, I have stayed with the score much longer- even to perform. I let memorization happen just as a byproduct of my practice. On the positive side, my sight reading has improved with this method. My questions are- When is the right time to start memorizing a piece and what is the best way to maintain a piece that has been memorized?
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Vidhya Bashyam Memorizing should be intentional, or it doesn’t really happen and, as you said, you will forget the piece as soon as you are not playing the piece anymore. If I know that I have to memorize a piece, I already start learning it by memorizing it at the same time.
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Antonella Di Giulio Thanks. I love playing a piece that has been memorized. I see that many on tonebase are doing what you are saying (memorizing while learning). Looking forward to your livestream.
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Hello, I'm logged in but can't get into the livestream. Is this a tech glitch on my end or possibly yours? Thanks
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Sandhya (Sandy) Asirvatham Hi! I am sorry you could not participate to the livestream. I hope you will be able to watch the recording later.
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The chat cut out just before the session ended. Thanks, Antonella for the interesting topic. Nice to see everyone in the chat.
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Daniel Hewitt thank you so much for being there!
Your memorization techniques are already very good, as far as I could see from the exercises.
And yes, memorizing a piece from any part which can be difficult is a perfect strategy.
Depending on the piece, sometimes I start from the very end too. For instance, I memorized Chopin’s Ballade #1 starting from the last pages.
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Thank you for sharing these strategies! This was very insightful. I don’t know if questions are still being answered but I would love to hear more specific example about how you use the method of loci with longer pieces. And if not maybe this could be a discussion for future workshop.
thanks again!
Brian
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Buongiorno Antonella! Thank you for this lovely lecture. I am new to Tonebase and a professional pianist. I found your techniques and philosophies quite insightful and fun. I was just wondering how you would approach getting a young child (6 or 7 years old) to memorize a short piece in, let's say, two to three lessons? Would you divide the assignments out like, for example, come up with a story for this piece next time I see you? Or, color in the 'chunks' with different colors?
This is unrelated, but I was also initially taught in Suzuki method when and I started a late age (11 years old) so I thought it was very cool that you specialized in that and some of your methods reminded me how my teacher approached our lessons. Molto Grazie!
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Barret P Wilber sorry, I just saw your comment.
i teach young kids in the same way explained in the video: we label the different sections, we combine the different parts together/
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