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The Robert Shaw Reader

The Robert Shaw Reader

Blocker, Robert

Hardcover

ConductingGeneral Music

ISBN10: 0300104545
ISBN13: 9780300104547
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Oct 11 2004
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.92 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

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 The heart of the book is composed of Shaw's previously unpublished notes on fifteen major choral works, ranging from Bach's B Minor Mass to Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms.

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