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The Perfect Wrong Note
Learning to Trust Your Musical Self
Series: Amadeus
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Ideal for music teachers, professional musicians, and students at any level seeking to enhance their practice and unlock authentic musicality.
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.
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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 both ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free.
Practising, 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.
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The Perfect Wrong Note
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 both ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. Practising, in the author's view, is a lively, honest, adventurous, and spiritually rewarding enterprise, and...Paperback$6011Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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Praised for his deep expertise and empathy, William Westney is hailed as a master teacher whose insightful guidance resonates strongly with students and professionals alike. Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, commends the book's profound impact.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781574671452
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 2006
Country: United States
Imprint: Amadeus Press
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 390g
Pages: 240
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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.
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