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The Robert Shaw reader /

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 anal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaw, Robert, 1916-1999
Otros Autores: Blocker, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • preface
  • introduction
  • part i organizing and sustaining the chorus
  • part ii thoughts on music, singing, rehearsal, and performance
  • approach, analysis, preparation
  • warm-up, rhythm and tempo, phrasing
  • quiet singing and count-singing
  • enunciation, language
  • part iii conducting the masterpieces
  • part iv preaching the gospel (of the arts)
  • part v celebrating the rituals of life
  • awards and citations
  • eulogies
  • letters
  • verse
  • index