Memorização musical – reflexões sobre a preparação de um recital de formatura em piano

Abstract

This study intends to investigate musical memorization for a public performance, relating my personal experience - throughout my training and during the preparation for the undergraduate recital - to the body of information I was able to gather from research on the subject. I believe that the performance of music works from memory brings many advantages to the interpreter in carrying out a public presentation and that this skill remained for a long time as a difficulty that prevented my activities as a pianist from being fully realized. Through the practical experimentation of different strategies to memorize a repertoire, I started to notice changes in this condition and I was finally able to experience success in this aspect materialized as the realization of my undergraduate examination recital. This experience instigated me in the sense of trying to understand the processes involved to identify what allowed this accomplishment. Thus, the methodology used in this research consisted of a bibliographic survey on the contributions of research related to musical memorization and the exercise of gathering a personal memory recollection, for the subsequent realization of an analysis of my experience in the light of the information raised in the literature. The main theoretical framework used deals with Performance Cues, as proposed by Chaffin, Logan, and Begosh. This work aims to help musicians and students to prepare themselves more assertively and solidly to obtain good results when memorizing a work and thus not feeling insecure to make a public presentation.