- G ABRAHAM, 'Frank Bridge', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed F Blume, Bärenreiter, 1952, Vol II
- ANON., 'Frank Bridge', The British Music Society Annual, 1920, 166-9
- ANON., 'Obituary', Variety, CXLI, 15 January 1941, 54
- ANON., 'Frank Bridge Obituary', Musical Times, February 1941, 79-80
- H ANTCLIFFE, 'Frank Bridge', The Sackbut, May 1925, 286-8
Describes Bridge as 'one of the finest British conductors of a generation or more'.
- E L BAINTON, and others, 'Sir Charles Stanford and his Pupils', Royal College of Music Magazine, Vol 20, No 2, 1924, 55-61
Reminiscences of Stanford's personality and teaching, including two short paragraphs by Bridge.
- S BANFIELD, Sensibility and English Song, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 68-74, 343-350
- _____ '"Too much of Albion?": Mrs Coolidge and her British Connections', American Music, April 1986, 59-88
- J BISHOP, 'Frank Bridge', Composer, 57, Spring 1975, 23
- T BRAY, 'Bridge's Novelletten and Idylls', Musical Times, November 1976, 905-6
- _____ 'Frank Bridge and Mrs Coolidge', Music and Musicians, October 1977, 28-30
- _____ 'Frank Bridge', The Listener, 1 March 1979, 317
- _____ 'Frank Bridge and his "Quasi-Adopted Son"', Music Review, May 1984, 135-8
- _____ 'Frank Bridge's First Visit to America', British Music Society Journal, 1986, 12-25
- _____ 'Frank Bridge', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed L Finscher, Bärenreiter, 2000, Vol II
- B BRITTEN, 'Britten Looking Back', Sunday Telegraph, 17 November 1963, 9
Indispensable account of Bridge's personality and teaching.
- F BYE, 'Frank Bridge's Sonata for Cello and Piano', Strad, XLI, 1930, 136-7
'One of the finest English works for this combination.'
- C CAREY, 'The Beloved Vagabonds', Royal College of Music Magazine, Vol 50, No 3, 1954, 92-3
Useful reminiscences of College days.
- F F CLOUGH and G J CUMING, The World's Encyclopaedia of Recorded Music, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1952, 100-1. First supplement, 1952, 752
- H COLE, 'Composer Without Problems', Country Life, February 1979
Two interesting points: (i) Bridge's Piano Sonata and Third String Quartet were 'the difficult works that had to be written, for the composer's rather than the listeners' sakes'. (ii) Neither Bridge's earlier nor later works should be praised at the expense of the other. 'We will never take his full measure until we accept him in his entirety.'
- S S DALE, 'Contemporary Cello Concerti: Bridge', Strad, April 1978, 1157-61
- O DAVIES and K HAYLE, Catalogue of the Frank Bridge Collection, Parry Room Library, Royal College of Music, London, 1962 (MS) (As an appendix, P HINDMARSH, Frank Bridge: A Catalogue of Works (1974-6) VII Catalogue of Sketches.)
A vital piece of Bridge documentation.
- W DAVIES, and others, 'Charles Villiers Stanford by Some of his Pupils', Music and Letters, July 1924, 193-207
More reminiscences of Stanford's personality and teaching; includes a paragraph by Bridge.
- S DEMARQUEZ, 'L'École anglaise contemporaine', Revue Musicale, July/August 1931, 111-2
- N DEMUTH, 'Musicians in Sussex', Sussex Life, April 1968, 24-6
- D DOUGLAS, 'A Great Sussex Musician', Sussex County Magazine, March 1941, 99-100
- T DUNHILL, Chamber Music, Macmillan, 1913, 223-6
- _____ 'Frank Bridge's New Trio', Monthly Musical Record, LX, 1 April 1930, 104-5
Describes the Second Piano Trio as 'a vital musical expression of the highest importance'.
- E EVANS, 'Modern British Composers 1. Frank Bridge', Musical Times, February 1919, 55-61
A perceptive survey for its date.
- _____ 'Frank Bridge', Cobbett's Cyclopaedic Survey of Chamber Music, ed W W Cobbett, Oxford University Press, 1929, Vol 1, 188-95
- _____ 'Frank Bridge', The Listener, 6 March 1941, 353
- _____ 'In Memoriam: Frank Bridge and Hamilton Harty', Music Review, II, 1941, 159-66
Includes some useful dates not found readily elsewhere. Evans also points out that he brought Bridge's Dance Poem to the notice of Nijinsky early in 1914 with a view to staging it as a ballet.
- _____ 'Frank Bridge', Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians', ed E Blom, 5th ed, Macmillan, 1954, Vol I, 933-5
- P EVANS, 'Instrumental Music I', The Blackwell History of Music in Britain: The Twentieth Century, ed S Banfield, Blackwell, 1995, 194-7, 238-44, 268-70
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