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[pies]

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[avguste]

Ligeti by memory?I wouldn't even attempt it.
Can't you play it with the score?

[anda]

Ligeti is very very tough to memorize... Like avguste said, I'd play with the score. That being said, this is how I memorize modern/contemporary works:

1st - spend a few hours with the score away from the piano - search for patterns, structures, try to analyze it and find the logic behind the construction. Write everything on the score.

2nd - back to the piano, start practicing each pattern/structure separately until I get it in tempo (usually by the time I can play it in tempo, it's also memorized; so this way you can shoot two birds with one stone - memorize and solve the technical issues at the same time)

3rd - re-link the fragments I have learned by playing through the work slowly, with the music sheet in front of me. I start at ~ half tempo, gradually rise the speed and try to use less and less the music sheet.

On more thing - listening helps build the complete image in your head (helps esp at 3rd stage), so I always have on my ipod all the works I'm practicing on, and I listen various recordings of those works as much as I can - on the street, at the gym, so on.

best luck with your audition, come back and tell us how it went.

[lostinidlewonder]

Pies are you talking about  Coloana fara sfarsit? By the way playing this by score is suicide, you must memorize.

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[ramseytheii]

Sometimes there is wisdom in giving up!

Walter Ramsey