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.

Luigi Bonpensiere (1876-1944) was a creative force who believed that he could design anything he set his mind to. After the 1920s, Bonpensiere wrote a highly controversial book on his 'mind over matter' pseudo-psychological ideas for piano called New Pathways to Piano Technique. In the last twenty years of the artist's life, he created piano scores and wrote music that was untrained and 'from his mind.'