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* Practicing Perfection: Memory and Piano Performance. By Roger Chaffin, Gabriela Imreh, and Mary Crawford. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (10 Industrial Ave., Mahwah, NJ 07430-- 2262; 800-926-6579; fax 201-760-- 3735; www.erlbaum.com), 2002. Appendices, indices, CD recording of Bach's Italian Concerto in E Hardback, $79.95. This study of how a concert pianist prepares a new piece for performance is a collaboration between the pianist (Imreh), a cognitive psychologist (Chaffin), and a social psychologist with an interest in post-positivist methodology (Crawford). Centering on a description and analysis of how pianist Gabriela Imreh learned the third movement of J. S. Bach's Italian Concerto, the authors relate the pianist's account of how she learns to the psychologists' interpretation of the process.