Article

Sholl, Robert (2020) James Sibley Watson’s The Fall of The House of Usher: Surrealism—improvisation—complementary serendipities. Perspectives of New Music, 58 (1). pp. 23-69. ISSN 0031–6016

Sholl, Robert (2019) Inscapes of musical listening: sensing/feeling/imagining. Naxos Musicology International.

Sholl, Robert (2019) Feldenkrais’s touch, Ephram’s laughter, Gould’s sensorium: listening and musical practice between thinking and doing. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 144 (2). pp. 397-428. ISSN 0269-0403

Sholl, Robert (2017) The Feldenkrais method. New Vistas, 3 (1). pp. 28-33. ISSN 2056-9688

Sholl, Robert (2012) Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality through Music. By Marcel Cobussen. Music and Letters, 93 (1). pp. 90-93. ISSN 1477-4631

Sholl, Robert (2007) Making the invisible visible: the theology, culture and practice of Olivier Messiaen's improvisation. Boston University Messiaen Project.

Sholl, Robert (2007) Review of Alan Fraser's The craft of piano playing: a new approach to piano technique. Music and Letters, 88 (1). pp. 190-192. ISSN 1477-4631

Book Section

Sholl, Robert (2024) Josephin ‘Sâr’ Péladan, Charles Tournemire and apocalyptic mysticism. In: Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle Seeing and Hearing the Beyond. Routledge. ISBN 9781032145662

Sholl, Robert (2024) “Joséphin ‘Sâr’ Péladan, Charles Tournemire and apocalyptic mysticism,” Art, Music, and Mysticism at the fin-de-siècle: Seeing and Hearing the Beyond, ed. Corrinne Chong and Michelle Foot (New York: Routledge), pp. 62-95. In: Art, Music, and Mysticism at the fin-de-siècle: Seeing and Hearing the Beyond. Routledge Research in Art History. Routledge, New York and London, pp. 62-95. ISBN 1032145668

Sholl, Robert (2024) “Artistic practice as Embodied Learning: Reconnecting Pedagogy, Improvisation, and Composition,” Rethinking the Teaching of Music Performance in Higher Level Institutions. In: Rethinking the Teaching of Music Performance in Higher Level Institutions. Open book, Cambridge, UK, pp. 135-164.

Sholl, Robert (2024) Artistic practice as Embodied Learning: Reconnecting Pedagogy, Improvisation, and Composition. In: Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research. Open Book Press, pp. 135-164. ISBN 9781805112754

Sholl, Robert (2021) Feldenkrais, Freud, Lacan, and Gould: how to love thyself not as thy neighbour. In: The Feldenkrais method in creative practice: dance, music, and theatre. Bloomsbury Methuen, London, UK, pp. 38-54. ISBN 9781350158382

Sholl, Robert (2020) Exquisite violence: imagery, embodiment and transformation in MacMillan. In: James MacMillan Studies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 87-110. ISBN 9781108492539

Sholl, Robert (2019) Jean-Louis Florentz and spectralism. In: The Oxford Handbook to Spectralism. Th Oxford Handbooks to Music. Oxford University Press, New York.

Sholl, Robert (2019) Olivier Messiaen: spectralist. In: The Oxford Handbook to Spectralism. Oxford Music Handbooks. Oxford University Press.

Sholl, Robert (2017) Pärt and the sound of one-hand clapping. In: Arvo Pärt's White Light: Media, Culture, Politics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 47-73. ISBN 9781107182899

Sholl, Robert (2016) Searching for the elusive obvious: memory, forgiveness, catharsis, and transcendence in contemporary spiritual music. In: Contemporary Music and Spirituality. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 229-257. ISBN 9781409440581

Sholl, Robert (2015) Stop it, I like it! Embodiment, masochism and listening for traumatic pleasure. In: Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space. Fordham University Press, New York, USA, pp. 152-174. ISBN 9780823264377

Sholl, Robert (2012) Arvo Pärt and spirituality. In: The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 140-158. ISBN 9780521279109

Sholl, Robert (2011) The shock of the positive: Olivier Messiaen, St Francis and redemption through modernity. In: Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology. Eerdmans, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780802862778

Sholl, Robert (2010) Olivier Messiaen and the Avant-garde poetics of the Messe de la Pentecôte. In: Messiaen the Theologian. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 199-222. ISBN 9780754666400

Conference or Workshop Item

Paterson, Justin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7822-319X, Sholl, Robert, Visser, Andy and McCready, Anna (2024) Les ombres du Fântome: Improvisation, recording, production and the collective imagination in artistic research. In: Royal Musical Association 150 Conference, 11-13 September 2024, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Paterson, Justin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7822-319X and Sholl, Robert (2024) Les ombres du Fântome: Improvisation, recording, production and the collective imagination in artistic research. In: Royal Musical Association Organ Conference, 6 September 2024, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Paterson, Justin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7822-319X, Sholl, Robert, Visser, Andy, Exarchos, Michail and McCready, Anna (2022) ‘In the Torture Chamber’: improvisation, recording, production and the collective imagination in artistic research. In: European Platform for Artistic Research in Music - EPARM 2022, 7-9 April 2022, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2019) Jean-Louis Florentz: Ethiopian music into spectralism. In: Amercian Musicological Society Conference, 30 October - 3 November 2019, Boston, Mass., USA. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2019) Spectral music in Nordic Noir. In: Spectralisms Conference, IRCAM,, 12-14 June 2019, Paris, France. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2018) The unmasking scene: improvisation in context. In: Phantoms of the opera: Music and performance on screen, 15-17 June 2018, Guildhall School of Music and Drama. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2018) Exhibiting the phantom: improvisations for an unmasking. In: Phantoms of the opera: Music and performance on screen, 15-17 June 2018, Guildhall School of Music and Drama. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2018) Messiaen and surrealism: ethnography and the poetics of excess. In: Surrealism and Music in France, 1924-1952: Interdisciplinary and International Contexts, 8 June 3018, London. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2017) Olivier Messaien and Charles Tournemire: the organ as the voice of God. In: RCO Organ Forum 2017 - a celebration of Olivier Messiaen, 28 October 2017, Royal Academy of Music, London. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2017) Messiaen and Pärt. In: Monastic Musicians Conference, 3 October 2017, Belmont Abbey Hereford. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2017) James Sibley Watson’s the fall of the house of usher: improvisation – images - complementary serendipities. In: Research Events Royal Academy of Music, 29 September 2017, Royal Academy of Music - Duke's Hall. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2017) Jean-Louis Florentz: hospitality and spectralism. In: European Musical Analysis Conference, 28 June - 1 July 2017, Strasbourg France. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2016) Sheridan Tongue’s music for silent witness: new perspectives on Pärtian tintinnabulation. In: Sounding the Sacred, 1-4 May 2016, New York Fordham University Campus. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2016) James Sibley Watson’s 'The fall of the house of Usher' (1928): improvisation – images - complementary serendipities. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2016) Jean-Louis Florentz: hospitality and spectralism. In: Spectralisms, 15-16 March 2017, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2016) Hospitality and translation in Florentz's work. In: L’œuvre de Jean-Louis Florentz, 28-29 Jan 2016, Lyon, France. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2015) Lacan, Feldenkrais and Gould: how to love thyself not as thy neighbour. In: Re-Storing Performance Conference, June 2015, Bath, UK. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2014) "How do you like your counterpoint, sir?": music pedagogy beyond therapy. In: EUROMAC 2014, 17-20 Sep 2014, Leuven, Belgium. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2014) Jean-Louis Florentz: spectral musician of an imaginary organ. In: Jean-Louis Florentz: visions d’ailleurs, July 2014, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2014) Educating Isaac. In: Educating Isaac, 27 April 2014, BBC Radio on iPlayer.

Sholl, Robert (2014) Olivier Messiaen and Jean-Louis Florentz: vibrations harmoniques. In: Visions of the Beyond: French organ music around Olivier Messiaen, 29 March 2014, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2013) Olivier Messiaen: the organ as the God's mouthpiece. In: Lecture Recital, 28 November 2013, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2013) Catholicism and catharsis: the sublime, the apocalyptic and ecstasy in the music of Charles Tournemire and Olivier Messiaen. In: FMCS Conference, 14-16 Feb 2013, New Haven, USA. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2012) Arvo Pärt: Embodiment – Enchantment – Transcendence. In: Music and the Body Conference, 9-11 March 2012, Hong Kong. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2011) Rites of passage: Messiaen and Boulez on Le Sacre du Printemps. In: Pierre Boulez in Context, 02-03 Oct 2011, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2007) Olivier Messiaen, the avant-garde, and the Messe de la Pentecôte. In: Boston Messiaen Project Conference, Nov 2007, Boston, USA. (Unpublished)

Arts Related non-text Outputs

Paterson, Justin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7822-319X, Sholl, Robert, Norton, Charlie and McCready, Anna (2024) Switched on Messiaen: what affordances might CEMIs offer to deliver an alternative sonic manifestation of the stymied aspirations of the proto-spectralist movement? [Arts Related non-text Outputs]

Sholl, Robert (2024) Improvisation. [Arts Related non-text Outputs]

Sholl, Robert (2024) Organ improvisation for the unmasking scene for The Phantom of the Opera (1925). [Arts Related non-text Outputs]

Book

Sholl, Robert (2024) Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Biography. Reaktion Press, London. ISBN 9781789148657

Sholl, Robert (2021) The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: dance, music, and theatre. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: dance, music, and theatre

Sholl, Robert (2021) The Feldenkrais method in creative practice: dance, music and theatre. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350158382

Parsons, George and Sholl, Robert (2020) James MacMillan studies. Cambridge Composer Studies series. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 9781108492539

Sholl, Robert (2008) Messiaen studies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521839815

Other

Sholl, Robert (2024) Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Biography. Reaktion, London, UK.

Sholl, Robert (2018) BBC Prom 10 programme Note: Charles-Marie Widor. BBC, https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/erhn5v. (In Press)

Sholl, Robert (2018) Arvo Pärt, passio and spirituality. UNSPECIFIED.

Audio

Paterson, Justin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7822-319X and Sholl, Robert (2024) Les Ombres du Fantôme. [Audio]

McMurtry, Leslie and Sholl, Robert (2021) Shattered! [Audio]

Composition

Sholl, Robert (2024) Robert Sholl Piano Improvisation to The Phantom of the Opera Unmasking Scene. [Composition]

Show/Exhibition

Sholl, Robert (2020) 150: The complete symphonies of Louis Vierne with major organ works of Charles Tournemire (and chamber music). A series for 150th anniversaries of these composers’ births. Arundel Cathedral. [Show/Exhibition]

Sholl, Robert (2014) Interviewed for BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature: Educating Isaac. [Show/Exhibition]

Performance

Sholl, Robert and Ledoux, Caroline (2023) Lot in Sodom (1932) dir. James Sibley Watson, piano improvisation by Robert Sholl. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert, Ledoux, Caroline and McCready, Anna (2023) La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, end (1928) dir. C.T. Dreyer, piano improvisation by Robert Sholl. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert, Ledoux, Caroline and McCready, Anna (2023) "The Furies" from Crime Without Passion (1934), piano improvisation by Robert Sholl. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert and Ledoux, Caroline (2023) Arrival of Count Orlok from Nosferatu (1922), piano improvisation by Robert Sholl. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert and ledoux, Caroline (2023) Georges Méliès, Un Homme de tête (1898): piano improvisation by Robert Sholl. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert and Ledoux, Caroline (2023) The Skeleton Dance (Walt Disney, 1929), piano improvisation by Robert Sholl. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert and Ledoux, Caroline (2023) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, live improvisation by Robert Sholl with sound effects by Caroline Ledoux. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert and Ledoux, Caroline (2023) Aurora Australia II - Hommage à Arvo Pärt. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert and Ledoux, Caroline (2023) Georges Méliès: La Lune à un mètre, also known as The Astronomer’s Dream (1898). [Performance]

Sholl, Robert and Ledoux, Caroline (2023) L'Homme à la tête en caoutchouc (The Man with the Rubber Head). [Performance]

Sholl, Robert and Ledoux, Caroline (2023) Mole and Music. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2021) Maria's Dance from Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang, improvisation by Robert Sholl. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2021) Improvisation - Robert Sholl, Exeter College, University of Oxford. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2021) Series of 8 concerts: The Complete Organ Symphonies of Louis Vierne, complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé, organ works of Charles Tournemire with chamber music and songs by Vierne. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2017) Recital at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. [Performance] (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2017) Olivier Messiaen complete organ works 7. [Performance] (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2017) Olivier Messiaen complete organ works 6. [Performance] (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2017) International Recital Series: recital at St John's Smith Square, London. [Performance] (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2016) Olivier Messiaen complete organ works 5. [Performance] (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2016) Improvisation to 'The unmasking scene for Rupert Julian's The Phantom of the Opera (1925)'. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2016) Improvisation to James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1929, silent film). [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2016) Olivier Messiaen complete organ works 4. [Performance] (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2016) Olivier Messiaen complete organ works 3. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2016) Olivier Messiaen complete organ works 2. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2016) Olivier Messiaen complete organ works 1. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2015) Westminster Abbey organ recital 6 December 2015. [Performance] (Unpublished)

Sholl, Robert (2015) Improvisations to films by James Sibley Watson. [Performance]

Sholl, Robert (2015) Recital at Westminster Abbey. [Performance]

Video

Sholl, Robert and Ledoux, Ledoux (2023) Spider vs Spider. [Video]