PUBLICATIONS
AND WRITINGS ON MUSIC BY ROBERT OSBORNE
- Songs of
Henry Cowell - editor of volume of 40 of Cowell’s previously
unpublished songs, preparation of performance editions from manuscripts,
computerization of scores, to be published by G. Schirmer Music
- Rhapsody
in Blue, Warner-Chappell Music, edited and computerized a performance
edition and parts, in conjunction with performances and recording
by Michael Tilson Thomas, of the 1924 Ferde Grofé Jazz
Band Orchestration
- “Songs
of John Alden Carpenter” - extended CD Liner Notes researching
the history and background of the songs recorded on the solo CD
As This Morning Fair: Songs of John Alden Carpenter.
- “Songs
of Henry Cowell” - extended CD Liner Notes researching the
history and background of the songs recorded on the solo CD Songs
of Henry Cowell.
- “The
Songs of Leo Sowerby” - extended CD Liner Notes researching
the history and background of the songs recorded on the solo CD
My Love Unspoken: Songs of Leo Sowerby.
- “Reordering
Schubert’s Schwanengesang” - program essay for the
1992 Schubert Symposium of the American Schubert Institute, Boston.
Presented thesis that Schwanengesang should be re-ordered following
the order of the poems in the poet’s collections and that
two additional Rellstab settings of 1828 should be included to
create a more cyclic set of songs consistent with the narrative
themes found in Schubert’s two great song cycles.
- The
Songs of Dmitri Shostakovich - manuscript to be published by Greenwood
Press. Extensive study, the first in any language, of over 150
solo songs by Shostakovich; works with piano, chamber ensemble
and orchestra are discussed in depth from both socio-historical
and musicological perspectives. Translations and transliterations
of all poems are included.
-
 “Vladimir
Stasov and the Mighty Five”: article for London Symphony
Orchestra festival program booklet, The Flight of the Firebird:
Rimsky-Korsakov and St. Petersburg, Barbican Centre, 1989. Discusses
Stasov’s seminal influence as the propagandist for the emerging
Russian Nationalist School.
- “Songs
of the Nightingale” - translations of Russian song texts
for Karen Emerson CD.
- Songs
of Jack Beeson, MLA Notes, June 1992. Review of recently published
scores.
- Songs
of Peter Warlock, MLA Notes, December 1990. Review of recently
published song volumes.
- Michael
Sahl & Eric Salzman’s Civilization and its Discontents,
David Amram’s Three Shakespeare Songs, and Kurt Weill’s
The Ballad of the Magna Carta, MLA Notes, September 1988. Review
of recently published scores.
- Franz
Schubert’s Salve Regina, Franz Lachner’s Two German
Songs, and Mauro Giuliani’s Sei ariette, op. 95, MLA Notes,
June 1986. Review of recently published vocal chamber music scores.
- Peter Maxwell
Davies’ The Yellow Cake Review and Stephen Oliver’s
A Man of Feeling, MLA Notes, March 1986. Review of recently published
scores.
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