In this luminous book, Tricia Tunstall explores the enduring
fascination of the piano lesson. Even as everything else about the
world of music changes, the piano lesson retains its appeal.
Drawing on her own lifelong experience as a student and teacher,
Tunstall writes about the mysteries and delights of piano teaching
and learning. What is it that happens in a piano lesson to make it
such a durable ritual? In a world where music is heard more often
on the telephone and in the elevator than in the concert hall, why
does the piano lesson still have meaning in the lives of children?
What does it matter whether one more child learns to play Bach's
Minuet in G?
"Note by Note" is in part a memoir in which Tunstall recalls her
own childhood piano teachers and their influence. As she observes,
the piano lesson is unlike the experience of being coached on an
athletic team or taught in a classroom, in that it is a one-on-one,
personal communication. Physically proximate, mutually
concentrating on the transfer of a skill that is often arduous,
complicated and frustrating, teacher and student occasionally
experience breakthroughs-moments of joy when the student has
learned something, mastered a musical passage or expressed a
feeling through music. The relationship is not only one-way:
teaching the piano is a lifelong endeavor of particular intensity
and power.
Anyone who has ever studied the piano-or wanted to-will cherish
this gem of a book.
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