Memory Map for Music
  • Introduction
  • How to begin: a single-line scale exercise
  • Mapping a short, single-line etude
  • Mapping a simple, single-line melody
  • Memory-Map Template
  • Maps for Flute: concerto, orchestral excerpt
  • Map for Piano: Bartok's Hungarian Folk Song
  • Map for Piano: Brahms' Cappriccio
  • Student Map for Piano: Kabalevsky Folk Dance
  • Mapping a Song Text
  • For Further Reading
  • About the Authors
Simple, single-line etude: 
Marcel Moyse’ 24 Petites Etudes Melodiques pour la Flute, (Leduc) are excellent novice-level examples for mapping. Etude no. 17 illustrates a diatonic, arpeggiated framework for octave-length chromatic scales. A semester-long assignment included learning this etude and transposing it to the additional eleven keys.  At the end-of-semester scales exam, students were asked to play the exercise in six random keys at 138  to the quarter, either from memory or with a memory map. Most didn’t ask to use a map.
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