Editor(s): Blocker, Robert (Lucy and Henry Moses Dean, Yale School of Music). Num Pages: 448 pages, 13 b&w illustrations, 50 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC8; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 798. . 2004. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Robert Shaw Reader
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0300104545
ISBN 13: 9780300104547
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Robert Shaw is considered to be the most influential choral conductor in American history. This is the first collection of his letters and notes about music ever published―at another time, it is the book Shaw would have written himself.
The letters are an invigorating mix of music history and analysis, philosophy, inspiration, and practical advice. Shaw examines technique, but only as a means to an end―he moves beyond that, delving into the essence of what music is and what it has to say to us. The heart of the book is composed of Shaw’s previously unpublished notes on fifteen major choral works, ranging from Bach’s B Minor Mass to Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms.
Often inspiring and sometime hilarious, these writings reveal the full breadth of Shaw’s knowledge, intensity, and humor.

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Robert Blocker is the Lucy and Henry Moses Dean of the Yale School of Music.

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