Faculty & Staff

Dr. James Sobaskie

Assistant Professor
Music Theory

jsobaskie@colled.msstate.edu
(662) 325-2871
Music Building B, Room 111

James William Sobaskie teaches music theory, ear training, orchestration, form, and composition in the Music Department at Mississippi State while serving as its music theory coordinator.

His scholarly interests include the music of Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, and Gabriel Fauré, plus the theories of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg, and he has published essays on each.  Dr. Sobaskie has addressed audiences in Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom, as well as at national and regional music theory and musicology conferences in America.  His critical edition of Gabriel Fauré's last two compositions, the Trio pour violon, violoncelle et piano (1923) and the Quatuor pour cordes (1924) inaugurated Œuvres Complètes de Gabriel Fauré in 2010, a thirty-volume monument initiated by the German publisher Bärenreiter with support from the French cultural agency Musica Gallica.  More recently, Dr. Sobaskie's suite for brass quintet called Sojourns (2011) was commissioned by the Mississippi Music Teacher's Association for its annual convention. 

Currently he is completing a book, The Music of Gabriel Fauré: style, structure, and the art of allusion, for Ashgate Publishing Ltd, and is Book Reviews Editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, published by Cambridge University Press.