Felix Delbrueck wrote:

>No!  That just makes you learn someone else's performance.  You need to
>go back to the score yourself and organize the music in your own head
>motivically - look at the character of the themes, observe how they are
>developed and transformed etc.  Then you've got a mental conception of the
>piece that is not only more reliable, but also allows you a freedom and
>flexibility in performance that would be impossible if you've limited
>yourself to memorizing a particular aural picture.

Well said.  The more you learn the music by yourself mentally putting it
together, taking it apart, etc.  the better you'll know it.  It may take
more time, but in music like everything else, there is no quick fix.  You
may as well do you're best first time through so you aren't struggling
later.  Kinda like school...

Joseph Sowa
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