Along with short-term memory, our capacity to solve problems is crucial to for sight-reading. It involves very sophisticated perceptual and cognitive abilities. Given that we cannot read all the notes on the score while sight-reading, we must sometimes:
- Leave out “unnecessary” notes.
- Complete or even “guess” musical passages.
- Make instant decisions about fingering, articulation, phrasing, harmony, etc.
- Make rapid decisions about where and how to look at chords and different compositional styles such as polyphonic and homophonic writings.
- Combine long musical passages into chunks (e.g., scales, arpeggios, accompaniment patterns, melodic sequences).
Garzia (Vision and Reading,1996) says, that decision making refers to visual cognitive style and there is a continuum decision making while reading that requires a reflective and thoughtful problem solver.
PTS II offers several exercises that enhance working memory and problem solving skills.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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