SCIENCE AND MUSIC

A Scientific Overview of Musical Memory

Tracing the musician’s path to playing without the score

Stefan Bernhard
5 min readJul 29, 2021

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Illustration of man’s head with musical symbols forming the shape of a brain.
Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay

Introduction

Ever wonder what exactly is going on in your head while memorizing new pieces? The following is a modified excerpt from my dissertation on memorization techniques of contemporary piano music written as…

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Stefan Bernhard

Pianist, teacher, and writer from New Orleans, La. Graduate from Tulane University and the Royal College of Music, London. www.stefanbernhard.com