Re: Can you teach musicality?
I may regret this, but as a beginning student I will share thoughts from the other "non-teacher" side. The question registers two meanings to me: 1) can I touch a meaningful, inspiring emotion within me that makes the music a huge contribution to my life and one that I can communicate through playing to others, 2) can I create my own music, my own compositions. It is my belief that all aspiring musicians can do both. It is also my belief that most people are convinced they can do neither. It is a question of how much freedom you allow mind and emotions to have. I also believe that you don't have to go through years and years of training before you can even think of exploring these two meanings. A student, if he or she allows herself the freedom, can play a simple etude with grace, feeling, and wonderfully expressive emotion. Creating your own composition is just as do-able. Musical training gives you increasingly better tools with which to do both. Well, the naive cat is out of the bag, but perhaps a student's viewpoint will be of interest to the amazing teachers and players who participate in this thread (or not LOL).
As an aside: years ago a movie, called IQ was produced. The background music was a violin solo of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - meant to give you the sense that Albert Einstein (a character in the movie) was playing it. The depth of musicality in the performance was, to me, breathtaking. One can attempt that depth, aspire to it, even as a beginner, me thinks.
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