Charles Griffes - Selected Bibliography

Books

Anderson, Donna K.  Charles T. Griffes: A Life in Music.  Washington: 
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Anderson, Donna K.  An Annotated Bibliography-Discography.  Detroit: The 
College Music Society, Inc., 1977.

Anderson, Donna K.  The Works of Charles T. Griffes: A Descriptive Catalogue.  
Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1983.

Bakeless, Katherine Little.  Story-Lives of American Composers.  New York: 
Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1941.

Boda, Daniel.  The Music of Charles T. Griffes.  PhD Dissertation, Florida 
State University, 1962.

Chase, Gilbert.  America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present, revised 
3rd ed.  Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Howard, John Tasker.  Our Contemporary Composers: America Music in the 
Twentieth Century.  New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1941.

Maisel, Edward.  Charles T. Griffes: The Life of an American Composer.  New 
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.



Reference Books

Anderson, Donna K.  "Griffes, Charles Tomlinson," The New Grove Dictionary 
of Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed February 9, 2003), 
<http://www.grovemusic.com>.

"Griffes, Charles Tomlinson," Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 
8th ed., revised by Nicholas Slonimsky.  New York: Schirmer Books, 1990, p. 
6712-2.

"Griffes, Charles Tomlinson," Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, ed. 
Don Michael Randal.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 
1996, p. 333-4.

"Griffes, Charles Tomlinson," New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. H. 
Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie.  London: Macmillan Press Limited, 2001, 
vol. 2, p. 286-8.



Articles

Bauer, Marion.  "Charles T. Griffes as I Remember Him."  Musical Quarterly 
vol.29 (July 1943): 355-80.

"Classical Music Hall of Fame Announces 1999 Inductees."  American String 
Teacher vol. 49 (May 1999): 102.

Eggers, Beth Jennings.  "Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Portrait of an American 
Impressionist."  American Music Teacher vol. 32, no. 1 (September-October 
1982): 28-9.

HachÈ, Reginald.  "Charles Tomlinson Griffes Revisited: An Essay on the Music 
of Charles Griffes."  The Journal of the American Liszt Society vol. 34 (July-
December 1993): 32-42.

Kennedy, Josepha.  "The Song Styles of Charles Tomlinson Griffes."  Journal 
of Singing vol. 55, no. 1 (September-October 1998): 17-23.

Lewin, Michael.  "Rediscovering Griffes."  Piano and Keyboard no. 186 (May-June 
1997): 33-8.

Mancinelli, Aldo.  "Charles Griffes: An American Enigma."  Clavier vol. 24, no. 
6 (July-August 1985): 12-17.

Moore, John V., and David M. Reeves.  "The Published German Songs of Charles T. 
Griffes."  The NATS Bulletin vol. 41, no. 2 (November-December 1984): 7-12.

Upton, William Treat.  "The Songs of Charles T. Griffes."  Musical Quarterly vol. 
9 (1923): 314-28.

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