The Well-Tempered Keyboard: Writing About Music When You Can No Longer Play Music: Author Andrea Avery was a serious and promising pianist and harpsichordist until severe rheumatoid arthritis made playing music painful at best and impossible at worst. In response, she turned to writing. In this workshop, Andrea will guide participants in transferring their musicality to writing. Exercises will features melodic line, harmony, form, timbre, and instrumentation as ways to find and develop a writing voice, either as a complement to their musical voice or as a way to retain connection to their musicality in the face of illness, injury, or disability.