Articles, books by Rhian Samuel:
‘Birtwistle’s The Minotaur: the opera and a diary of its first
production', Cambridge Opera Journal, 20, 3 (2009),
1-22
‘Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur’. Programme booklet,
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, April 2008
(for 1st perf. of Birtwistle's The Minotaur).
'Ail-lunio'r Cwestiwn', Tu Chwith, Hydref/Oct.1996, 86-89
'Women of Composure', BBC Music Magazine, May 1996,
32-34
'Women Who Call the Tunes', Guardian, 26 May, 1995, 11
Co-editor (with Julie Anne Sadie), The Norton/New Grove
Dictionary of Women Composers (London and New
York: Macmillan and W.W. Norton), 1994
‘Women’s Music: A Twentieth-Century Perspective’, in The
New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers,
xiii-xviii.
‘Elisabetta Brusa’, ‘Ellen Coleman’, ‘Silvina Milstein’, ‘Judith
Weir’, ‘Julia Wolfe’ in The New Grove Dictionary of
Women Composers (see above)
‘Musical Expressions’ in Reclaiming the Muse, ed. Nicola
Lefanu & Sophie Fuller, Contemporary Music
Review, 11, Dec 1994, 257-9
‘Time Remembered: Birtwistle’s The Second Mrs Kong’,
Opera, lxv, 10 (Oct 1994), 1153-58
‘Violetta and Germont’ in Violetta and her Sisters, ed. N.
John (London: Faber), 1994, 258-263
‘Facing the Music’ in Women in Music, ed. David Jones,
Channel 4 Publications, June 1994, 8-9
‘Editing the Twentieth Century: The New Grove Dictionary
of Women Composers’, ILWC Journal, Oct 1993,
22-23
‘Feminist Musicology: Endings or Beginnings?’, Women: A
Cultural Review, 3, 1 (July 1992), 65-69
‘Birtwistle’s Gawain: An Essay and a Diary’, Cambridge
Opera Journal, 4, 2 (1992), 163-178
‘Gawain’s Musical Journey.’ Programme booklet, Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden, May 1991 (for
1st perf. of Birtwistle's Gawain). 2nd version
(for revised opera), April 1994
‘Music in Command' [Reimann's Lear: the music]
Programme booklet, ENO, Feb 1989 (for 1st
British perf. of Lear)
‘Women Composers: A Personal View’, Contact, 32 (Spring
1988), 53-54
Reviews by Rhian Samuel:
‘Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley, eds: Audible Traces’.
Perspectives of NewMusic (USA), Summer, 2002
‘Jonathan Cross: Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music
and Robert Aldington: The Music of Harrison
Birtwistle’, Music and Letters, 2001
‘David Osmond-Smith: Berio.’ Music and Letters, 73, 3
(Aug. 92), 483-5
‘Wolfram Schwinger, tr. William Mann: Krysztof Penderecki:
his Life and Work.’ Music and Letters, 72, 1 (Feb. 91),
153- 55
‘Philip Glass: Opera on the Beach.’ Music and Letters, 70, 4
(Nov. 89), 579-81
‘Charles Wuorinen: Crossfire.’ Music and Letters , 70, 4 (Nov.
89), 597-8
‘New Music 87, ed. Roger Wright and Michael Finnissey.’
Music and Letters 69, 1 (Jan 88), 298-9
‘24th Annual RMA Conference.’ Musical Times, 130 (June 89),
368
‘Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories and George Rochberg:
Four Short Sonatas.’ Music and Letters,70, 2 (May
89), 308-10
‘Fred Lerdahl: Fantasy Etudes and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich:
Symphony No. 2.’ Music and Letters, 70, 2 (May 89),
310-12
‘Morton Feldman: For Frank O’Hara and Earle Brown:
Centering’. Music and Letters, 69, 4 (Oct. 88), 569
-570.
‘Colin Matthews: Toccata meccanica and Three enigmas.’
Music and Letters , 69, 4 (Oct. 88), 571-73
‘Jonathan Lloyd: The Shorelines of Certainty and Nigel
Osborne: Mythologies.’ Musicand Letters, 69, 4
(Oct. 1988), 570-71
'Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Concerto and Concerto Grosso
(1985).’ Music and Letters, 69, 2 (April 1988), 143
-44
Selected writings on Rhian Samuel:
Andrews, Joyce. ‘Composer Rhian Samuel: The Female
Viewpoint and Welsh Influences in her Vocal
Music’. Women and Music, 8 (2004), 61-72.
Davies, Lyn. ‘Rhian Samuel (1944-): ‘Cyfansoddwraig o’r
Cwm’. In Cwm Cynon, ed. Hywel Teifi Edwards,
Gomer Press, 1997, 329-342.
Hoch, Matthew. 'A Shining Crag': Rhian Samuel's Yr Alarch'.
Journal of the IAWM, 25, 1 (2019), 14-17.
Hoch, Matthew and Linda Lister. 'Art Songs by Women'.
In So You Want to Sing Music by Women, ed. M.
Hoch and L. Lister, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, 61.
Mabry, Sharon. Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music.
New York: OUP, 2002. [Discussions of 'The Hare in
the Moon, 'Songs of Earth and Air', 'The Witch's
Manuscript' and 'In the Hall of Mirrors.]
Mabry, Sharon. ‘Two Gems for Soprano’. Journal of Singing,
Sept/Oct, 2000, 57, 1, 35-36. [Discussion of ‘The
Hare in the Moon’.]
Mabry, Sharon. ‘Song-Cycles by Women Composers, Part II’.
Journal of Singing,,Jan/Feb, 2000, 56, 3, 61-61.
[Discussions of ‘Songs of Earth and Air’, ‘Three
Songs with Guitar’ and ‘The White Amaryllis’.]
Mack, Anna. 'Opina compositor a inglesa, "La música no
se explica con palabras" '. El Sur [Concepción, Chile],
17 mayo, 1992, 9.
Manning, Jane. ‘Rhian Samuel: The Hare in the Moon’. New
Vocal Repertory, Volume 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1998, 193-197.
Manning, Jane. ‘Rhian Samuel: The Hare in the Moon’.
Vocal Repertoire for the 21st Century, Volume 1:
Works written before 2000. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 2020, 271-274.
Schutz, Rachel. 'An Introduction to Welsh Solo Vocal
Repertoire.' Journal of Singing, Sept/Oct. 2020,
77, 1, 73-80. [Discussion of six Welsh composers,
from Morfydd Owen to Rhian Samuel.]
Williams, Nicholas. ‘Composer Focus: Rhian Samuel'.
Mastersinger, 51 (Spring, 2004), 22-23.
Weirzbicki, James. 'SLSO to play new work by Conservatory
Composer'. St Louis Globe-Democrat. Sept 26-27,
1981, 5F.
