The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self (Amadeus) - Softcover

William Westney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574671456 ISBN 13: 9781574671452

Publisher: Amadeus, 2006

Synopsis

In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. For example, playing a wrong note can be constructive, useful, even enlightening. The creator of the acclaimed Un-Master Class workshop also explores the special potential of group work, outlining the basics of his revelatory workshop that has transformed the music experience for participants the world over. Practicing, in Westney's view, is a lively, honest, adventurous, and spiritually rewarding enterprise, and it can (and should) meet with daily success, which empowers us to grow even more. Teachers, professionals, and students of any instrument will benefit from this unique guide, which brings artistic vitality, freedom, and confidence within everyone's reach.

About this title

About the Author

William Westney is a past winner of the Geneva International Competition, concert pianist, teacher, and educational innovator. A distinguished professor and artist-in-residence, he has been honoured with many awards and his groundbreaking Un-Master Class performance workshop is in great demand around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amadeus
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574671456
• ISBN 13: 9781574671452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240