Link to The End ... and a Beginning: 94 Link to The Late Works: 77 Link to Isolation: 62 Link to Mrs Coolidge and the American Experience: 43 Link to Personalities and the Piano Sonata: 34 Link to Established: 22 Link to Earning a Living: 10 Link to The Beloved Vagabonds: 1
Bibliography: 129

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  • R L E FOREMAN, 'Frank Bridge as Performer: a Discography', Record Advertiser, March/April 1974, 17-20
  • _____ 'The British Musical Renaissance - a Guide to Research', Thesis for Library Association Fellowship, 1975
  • _____ with E HUGHES and M WALKER, 'Frank Bridge, a Discography', Recorded Sound, 66/67, April/July, 1977, 669-73
  • _____ From Parry to Britten: British Music in Letters 1900-1945, Batsford, 1987
  • M D FURLEY, '-', Musical America, XXXIX, 17 Nov 1923, 33
    A short report of the concerts in Detroit during Bridge's American conducting tour in 1923.

  • J A GALANT, 'The Solo Piano Works of Frank Bridge', Dissertation for the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 1987
  • S GODDARD, 'Frank Bridge', Monthly Musical Record, LXXI, March/April 1941, 59-63
    Praises particularly A Prayer.

  • R HENDERSON, 'Bridge and Britten', Musical Times, June 1967, 524
  • P HINDMARSH, 'Frank Bridge - a Centenary Survey', Music Teacher, 1979, July 15-18 and August 11-13
  • _____ Frank Bridge: A Thematic Catalogue, Faber, 1983
  • _____ 'Frank Bridge: Seeds of Discontent', Musical Times, January, 1991, 695-8
  • J HOLBROOKE, 'Frank Bridge', in Contemporary British Composers, Palmer, 1925, 61-71
  • H HOWELLS, 'Frank Bridge', Music and Letters, XXII, 1941, 208-15
    A perceptive summary.
  • F HOWES, The English Musical Renaissance, Secker and Warburg, 1966, 160-2
    After the First World War, Bridge 'began to uglify his music to keep it up to date'.
  • A E HULL, 'The Neo-British School', Monthly Musical Record, LI, 1 March 1921, 52-3
  • R HULL, 'The Pot of Basil', Radio Times, 10 May 1935, 13

  • A J, 'The Christmas Rose', Opera, XVII, February 1966, 164
  • I JAMES, 'Frank Bridge', Obituary, Royal College of Music Magazine, Vol 37, No 1, 1941, 22-4
    Useful reminiscences from a close friend.
  • _____ 'The Good Old Days', Royal College of Music Magazine, Vol 50, No 3, 1954, 99-102
    More useful reminiscences.
  • _____ 'Frank Bridge', Dictionary of National Biography 1941-50, eds L H Wickham Legg and E T Williams, Oxford University Press, 1959, 105-6

  • R M KEATING, 'The Songs of Frank Bridge', Dissertation for the University of Texas at Austin, 1970
    The earliest lengthy discussion of Bridge's music to appear during the Bridge revival.
  • H KINSEY, 'The Chips', Royal College of Music Magazine, Vol 52, No 2, 1956, 47-8
    Reminiscences of College days.

  • K R LITTLE, Frank Bridge: a Bio-bibliography, New York: Greenwood Press, 1991
  • J LLOYD WEBBER, 'The Cello Music of Frank Bridge', Strad, April 1976, 905-7

  • D MITCHELL and P REED (eds), Benjamin Britten: Letters From a Life, Vols 1 and 2, Faber, 1991