Selected Works
As author:
- Adventures in Symphonic Music. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 1944
- The New York Philharmonic Guide to the Symphony. ISBN 0-8027-0540-5
As editor:
- Perspectives in Musicology: The Inaugural Lectures of the Ph.D. Program in Music at the City University of New York. Edited by Barry S. Brook, Edward O. D. Downes, and Sherman Van Solkema. 1967. ISBN 0-393-09952-0
As translator:
- Janáček, Leos. Jenufa. Australia : Pellinor Pty Ltd., 1984
- Shostakovich, Dmitri: Katerina Ismailova. English translation by Edward Downes. New York: Leeds Music, 1963.
- Verdi, The Man in his Letters, as edited and selected by Franz Werfel and Paul Stefan. Translated by Edward Downes.
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