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The Perfect Wrong Note

Learning to Trust Your Musical Self
Series: Amadeus
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The Perfect Wrong Note by William Westney offers a fresh approach to musical practice, encouraging musicians to find personal fulfilment through trust and self-expression. Blending psychological insights with timeless wisdom, Westney presents practicing not as a chore, but as an adventurous, honest, and spiritually rewarding journey.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for music teachers, professional musicians, and students at any level seeking to enhance their practice and unlock authentic musicality.

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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.

Series: Amadeus

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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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781574671452

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: Amadeus Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 390g

Pages: 240

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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