ABSTRACT
We dealt in an earlier chapter with the general aspect of memory, and musical memory is but a particular application of the principles there put forward. The three prime points to be considered are Reception, Retention, and Recall, and these are really the same thing treated from different angles. Reception is the act of making the record, Retention is the preservation of that record intact and available for use, while the Recall is the reproduction of the original record. When we put a gramophone record into the machine we get the reproduction, and when we vitalize a brain record we have a memory, and the clarity and accuracy of the reproduction must obviously depend upon the same values in the original Reception. Nothing can make the reproduction better than the record; hence the great attention that must be paid to the first of these three points.
