Paperback. In this groundbreaking book, noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfilment 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. Practicing, in the author's view is a lively, honest, adventurous, and spiritually rewarding enterprise, and it can be met with daily success, which empowers us to grow even more. Teachers, professionals, and students of any instrument will benefit from this unique guide. Helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfilment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, this work shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. It is aimed at teachers, professionals, and students of any instrument. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Perfect Wrong Note (Paperback)
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation, New Jersey
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1574671456
ISBN 13: 9781574671452
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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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

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Winner of the Geneva International Competition, concert pianist William Westney is also an acclaimed teacher and educational innovator. A distinguished professor and artist-in-residence at Texas Tech University, he has been honored with many teaching awards, and his groundbreaking Un-Master Class performance workshop, which has been profiled in the New York Times, is increasingly in demand in the United States and abroad.

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