Memorization - Part 1

How to learn the basics of memorization on the violin

In this video, Lora introduces the first basic steps to memorize music on the violin.

Released on May 7, 2014

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Seamas on June 25, 2014 @1:04 pm PST

Addition to Memory 1 video. You might want to look at the work of Jacques Coquelin who documented performance learning techniques based on his experiences with the descendants of Moliere's company in France. They systems for learning gesture and voice and words all at once. He divides the performer into actor 'a' and actor 'b' where a is what the audience sees and b is the part that organizes and marshals the various resources the actor has.. This is very similar to your conception of the violin player.

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Lora * VSM MEMBER * on June 27, 2014 @5:08 pm PST

Seamas, this sounds very very intriguing! I like these concepts! I will look up Mr. Coquelin!

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Seamas on June 29, 2014 @11:33 am PST

Lora, good! Ironically my memory of M. Coquelin's first name was faulty : it is Benoit-Constant. The pertinent book is 'Art and the Actor'.Pardon!. Do you know a source on the web for the violin parts to the Mozart symphonies? I want to play them while developing kinaesthetic memory, pillaring to the aural memory of 18th century styles while learning a 'modern' recorder. I reckon I could start at the first of those symphonies and work my way through with interpretations from disk to play along to.

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Lora * VSM MEMBER * on June 30, 2014 @1:20 pm PST

try "imslp.org".
You will find lots of public domain stuff. But it won't be as clean as the virtual sheet music copies you find here.

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Seamas on June 25, 2014 @12:52 pm PST

Thankyou Layra ...saw this one second .Your reading while playing exercise is similar to Peter Brooks theatre exercises for his cast for Carmen in France in the 1970's. Documentary on BBC perhaps. Brook was working from Pompidou Centre at the time.

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Linda * VSM MEMBER * on June 3, 2014 @8:30 pm PST

Thanks. That helps a lot. I was not fond of the dark because of the stickiness. Now I know why. It is humid where I live. Good to know.

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