New Pathways to Piano Technique: A Study of the Relations Between Mind and Body with Special Reference to Piano Playing

Readers and musicians will find “quite [a] revolutionary approach to the keyboard” in this work that applies psychological principles to improve piano skill (Music & Letters). In 1931, composer, artist, and inventor Luigi Bonpensiere began exploring piano technique through a series of mind-body experiments. He devoted the next twelve years of his life to examining, recording, interpreting, and applying his findings. New Pathways to Piano Technique contains Bonpensiere’s notes toward a piano practice grounded in ideokinesis. This revolutionary approach combines the somatic experience of the musician with visual imagery to improve musical skill fluidly and rapidly. With a foreword by Aldous Huxley, who calls Bonpensiere a “remarkably gifted author,” this pioneering work offers valuable philosophical and psychological insights on the practice of piano to contemporary music lovers and pianists.

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Ebook: 10 June 2025