Rate My Professor Robert Shay

Shay's scholarly work centers on the music of Henry Purcell and seventeenth-century England. Notable publications include the co-authored book Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which earned the Music Library Association’s Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or research tool in music. His articles have appeared in leading journals such as Early Music, Music & Letters, Notes, and the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music. He has contributed chapters to Purcell Studies (Cambridge University Press) and King Arthur in Music (D.S. Brewer), and recently published a critical edition of Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas (Bärenreiter, 2023), with an edition of King Arthur in preparation. As a founding member of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Shay has held roles including treasurer, nominating committee chair, program committee chair, and hosted the society's conference in Boulder in 2018. He has presented papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, and given invited lectures at institutions including Brandeis University, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Western Illinois University, and the Round Top Early Music Festival.