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Re:Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition by edejong on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:23AM (#20534193)
It's a long piece, so she's probably afraid she'll forget a passage later on.
Re:Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition by Cthulhu_ on Friday July 26, 2019 @09:28AM (#20534603)
It's super impressive that people can play music like that form memory, I mean there's got to be thousands or tens of thousands of notes in there.
Re:Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition by aaron-santos on Friday July 26, 2019 @11:32AM (#20535527)
It is! Music is particularly amenable to chunking. The structure of measures, phrases, sections, forms, and pieces lends itself to efficient memorization or perhaps musicians/composers select/write more memorizable music with this structure in mind.
Re:Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition by raincom on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:01PM (#20536277)
Actually, music was the only thing Clive Wearing can play, and he was suffering from retrograde amnesia--he could not remember his past at all. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/24/the-abyss
Re:Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition by jlawson on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:04PM (#20536879)
You can remember music like that too. Take any song you've listened to many times - I'm pretty sure if someone changed one note, or one word, you'd notice immediately.

Of course, actually playing those notes while you remember them is harder...

Re:Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition by filoleg on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:01PM (#20537907)
Eventually, it becomes muscle memory. At least for me, I start memorizing pieces from high-level to bottom, but eventually once I played it from memory too many times, I struggle to remember or recall high-level concepts and phrases and other things about the piece. But once I sit down and put my hands on the keyboard, it all comes back as I play through muscle memory.