Articles, books by Rhian Samuel (in order of pub.):
‘Women Composers: A Personal View’, Contact, 32 (Spring
1988), 53-54
‘Music in Command' [Reimann's Lear: the music]
Programme booklet, ENO, Feb 1989 (for 1st
British perf. of Lear)
‘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
‘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
‘Editing the Twentieth Century: The New Grove Dictionary
of Women Composers’, ILWC Journal, Oct 1993,
22-23
‘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
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)
‘Time Remembered: Birtwistle’s The Second Mrs Kong’,
Opera, lxv, 10 (Oct 1994), 1153-58
‘Musical Expressions’ in Reclaiming the Muse, ed. Nicola
Lefanu & Sophie Fuller, Contemporary Music
Review, 11, Dec 1994, 257-9
'Women Who Call the Tunes', Guardian, 26 May, 1995, 11
'Women of Composure', BBC Music Magazine, May 1996,
32-34
'Ail-lunio'r Cwestiwn', Tu Chwith, Hydref/Oct.1996, 86-89
‘Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur’. Programme booklet,
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, April 2008
(for 1st perf. of Birtwistle's The Minotaur).
‘Birtwistle’s The Minotaur: the opera and a diary of its first
production', Cambridge Opera Journal, 20, 2 (2009),
1-22
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.