Efficient Music Memorization: Start with the Whole

Bach Johann Sebastian . 1976. The Six Brandenburg Concertos and Four Orchestra Suites. Edited by Rust Wilhelm . New York: Dover Publications.

Bernardi Nicolò Francesco Schories Alexander Jabusch Hans-Christian Colombo Barbara Altenmüller Eckart . 2013. “Mental Practice in Music Memorization: An Ecological-Empirical Study.” Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 30 (3): 275–90. doi:10.1525/mp.2012.30.3.275.

Brady T. F. Konkle T. Alvarez G. A. Oliva A. 2008. “Visual Long-Term Memory Has a Massive Storage Capacity for Object Details.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105 (38): 14325–29. doi:10.1073/pnas.0803390105.

Chaffin Roger Logan Topher R. Begosh Kristen T. 2012. Performing from Memory. Edited by Hallam Susan Cross Ian Thaut Michael . Vol. 1. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298457.013.0033.

Choa S. A. 2011. “The Art of ‘Repetitive Practicing’: Torture or Meditation?.” In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science, edited by Williamon A. Edwards D. Bartel L. , 317–22. Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Debarnot Ursula Castellani Eleonora Valenza Gaetano Sebastiani Laura Guillot Aymeric . 2011. “Daytime Naps Improve Motor Imagery Learning.” Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 11 (4): 541–50. doi:10.3758/s13415-011-0052-z.

Fenn Kimberly M. Nusbaum Howard C. Margoliash Daniel . 2003. “Consolidation during Sleep of Perceptual Learning of Spoken Language.” Nature 425 (6958): 614–16. doi:10.1038/nature01951.

Hallam Susan . 1995. “Professional Musicians’ Approaches to the Learning and Interpretation of Music.” Psychology of Music 23 (2): 111–28. doi:10.1177/0305735695232001.

Jang Hyunjin . 2018. “Using Mapping Music as a Memorization Method in Private Piano Teaching.” Western Illinois University. https://www.proquest.com/openview/11db053508a0b66654a11a624a86307d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750.

Lim Serene Lippman Louis G. 1991. “Mental Practice and Memorization of Piano Music.” The Journal of General Psychology 118 (1): 21–30. doi:10.1080/00221309.1991.9711130.

Luria Roy Sessa Paola Gotler Alex Jolicœur Pierre Dell’Acqua Roberto . 2010. “Visual Short-Term Memory Capacity for Simple and Complex Objects.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22 (3): 496–512. doi:10.1162/jocn.2009.21214.

Mishra Jennifer . 2002. “A Qualitative Analysis of Strategies Employed in Efficient and Inefficient Memorization.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education 152:74–86.

Mishra Jennifer . 2005. “A Theoretical Model of Musical Memorization.” Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain 19 (1): 75–89. doi:10.1037/h0094039.

Mishra Jennifer . 2010. “A Century of Memorization Pedagogy.” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 32 (1): 3–18.

Mishra Jennifer . 2011. “Influence of Strategy on Memorization Efficiency.” Music Performance Research 4:60–71.

Mishra Jennifer Backlin William . 2007. “The Effects of Altering Environmental and Instrumental Context on the Performance of Memorized Music.” Psychology of Music 35 (3): 453–72. doi:10.1177/0305735607077838.

Molloy Katharine Moore David R. Sohoglu Ediz Amitay Sygal . 2012. “Less Is More: Latent Learning Is Maximized by Shorter Training Sessions in Auditory Perceptual Learning.” PLoS ONE 7:e36929. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036929.

Munoz-Lopez Monica M. Mohedano-Moriano Alicia Insausti Ricardo . 2010. “Anatomical Pathways for Auditory Memory in Primates.” Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 4:129. doi:10.3389/fnana.2010.00129.

Noice Helga Jeffrey John Noice Tony Chaffin Roger . 2007. “Memorization by a Jazz Musician: A Case Study.” Psychology of Music 36 (1): 63–79. doi:10.1177/0305735607080834.

Oakhill Jane . 1986. “Effects of Time of Day and Information Importance on Adults’ Memory for a Short Story.” The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 38 (3): 419–30. doi:10.1080/14640748608401606.

Potkin Katya Trudeau Bunney William E. 2012. “Sleep Improves Memory: The Effect of Sleep on Long Term Memory in Early Adolescence.” PLoS ONE 7 (8): e42191. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042191.

Reichenbach Brian W. 2017. “Memorization in Trumpet Pedagogy: A Qualitative Case Study of Its Integration in the College-Level Applied Studio.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/99323/REICHENBACH-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.

Sullivan Larry . 2009. REM Sleep. In The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Sullivan Larry , 446. Thousand Oaks: SAGE. doi:10.4135/9781412972024.n2172.

Shea Charles H. Lai Qin Black Charles Park Jin-Hoon . 2000. “Spacing Practice Sessions across Days Benefits the Learning of Motor Skills.” Human Movement Science 19 (5): 737–60. doi:10.1016/S0167-9457(00)00021-X.

Snell Howard . 2005. The Trumpet: Its Practice and Performance : A Guide for Students. Brighton, UK Pen Press Publishers.

Soares Alexander . 2015. “Memorisation of Atonal Music.” Guildhall School of Music and Drama. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/15964/.

Stetson Federico Musgrove . 2017. “Music Memorization for the Classical Guitarist.” University of Miami. https://scholarship.miami.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Music-Memorization-for-the-Classical-Guitarist/991031447406702976.

Stuart George Hulme Charles . 2000. “The Effects of Word Co-Occurance on Short-Term Memory: Associative Links in Long-Term Memory Affect Short-Term Memory Performance.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 26 (3): 796–802. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.26.3.796.

Tokarski Kamil M. 2017. “Mapping Techniques as a Means of Enhancing the Pianist’s Memorization Process of Karol Szymanowski’s Masques Op. 34.” Ball State University. https://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/201047.

Wolfe Pat . 2010. Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice, 2nd ed. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.