(A more up-to-date version of this bibliography is available at afrovoices.com/harry-thacker-burleigh-bibliography)
Contents
Simpson, Anne K[ey]. Hard Trials: The Life and Music of Harry T.
Burleigh.
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990.
Hammond, Lily Hardy.
In the Vanguard of a Race
. New York: Council
of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education
Movement of the United
States and Canada, 1922.
Allison, Roland Lewis, "Classification of the Vocal Works of Harry T.
Burleigh
(1866-1949) and Some Suggestions for Their Use in Teaching
Diction in Singing."
Ph.d diss., Indiana University, 1966.
"Harry T. Burleigh, Arranger of Negro Spirituals." [St. Paul?],
Minn.:
Minnesota School of the Air, dist. by National Center for Audio
Tapes,
19--.
Snyder, Jean Elizabeth. "Harry T. Burleigh and the Creative Expression
of
Bi-musicality: a Study of an African-American Composer and the American
Art
Song." Ph.d diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1992.
La Guardia, Fiorello H. "[Fiorello La Guardia talk to the people]."
Broadcast
on WNYC, April 2, 1944.
St. George's bulletin
. Vol. 8, no. 40. New York: St. George's
Church: 1949.
Burleigh, Harry T[hacker]. "Some Pertinent Points Concerning
Negro Spirituals."
Music Publishers Journal
2
(November/December, 1944): 26.
Review of "Deep River," by H.T. Burleigh. In
Musical America
25
(January 20, 1917): 34.
Kramer, A. Walter. "H.T. Burleigh: Composer by Divine Right and 'The
American
Coleridge-Taylor.'"
Musical America
, (April 29, 1916):
25.
M., H. K. "Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949): 'Deep River' Popularizes a
Composer."
The Black Perspective in Music
2 (Spring 1974): 75-79.
(Reprint of an article in the
Boston Evening Transcript
, March 10,
1917.)
"New York Church Pays Tribute to Burleigh."
Musical America
39
(April 12, 1924): 21, 27.
"Obituary: Henry Thacker Burleigh."
Musical America
69 (October
1949): 26.
Peress, Maurice. "Dvorak a jeho afroamericti zaci" [Dvorak and
His
African-American Students].
Hadebni Rozhledy
44 (1991):
229-231.
Review of "Deep River," by H.T. Burleigh. In
Musical America
25
(January 20, 1917): 34.
Southern, Eileen, comp. "In Retrospect: Harry T. Burleigh."
The
Black Perspective in Music
2 (Spring 1974): 75-86.
Snyder, Jean E. "A Great and Noble School of Music: Dvorak, Harry T.
Burleigh,
and the African American Spiritual." Tibbetts, John C., ed.
Dvorak in America: 1892-1895.
Portland, Ore.: 1993.
Walton, Lester A. "Harry T. Burleigh Honored To-Day at St. George's."
The Black Perspective in Music
, 2 (Spring 1974): 80-83. (Reprinted
from the clippings files at the Schomberg
Library, New York, March 30,
1924.)
"Charles L. Marshall Papers, 1937-1940." Manuscripts, Archives and
Rare Books
Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The
New York Public
Library, New York.
Logan, Rayford Whittingham,1897- YEAR: 1925 1982 PUB TYPE:
Harry T. Burleigh,
arranger of Negro spirituals
[St. Paul?, Minn.: Minnesota School of the Air,
Distributed by National
Center forAudio Tapes) YEAR: ? 1900 1995
1
soundcassette (15 min.) SERIES: Adventures in music
Lawson, Raymond Augustus. 1875-1959. YEAR: 1859 1976
Harry T. Burleigh, Ossip
Gabrilowitsch, Roland Hayes, Robert A. Moody, and
Susan Lee Warner.
Afro-American pianist, of Hartford, Conn.
"[Harry T. Burleigh Portrait Collection]." 1915 1939
"Ferdinand Q. Morton portrait collection." 1930 1945
Brice, Carol, 1916-1985. : 1905 1978 and professor of music,
Universityof
Oklahoma, Norman.
Note: Additional spirituals and art songs listed under anthologies.
Burleigh, Harry Thacker. "The Absent-Minded Beggar." [19--?]. ms.
________. "And As the Gulls Soar!" New York: W. Maxwell Music, 1905.
________. "Apart." New York: Maxwell, 1905.
________. "By the Pool at the Third Rosses." New York: G. Ricordi,
1916.
________. "Come with me." New York: G. Ricordi, 1921.
________. "Don't Yo' Dream of Turnin' Back." New York: G. Ricordi,
1921.
________. "Down by the Sea." New York: G. Ricordi, 1919.
________. "Dream Land: a Cradle Song." New York: Maxwell, 1905.
________. "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors." New York: G. Ricordi, 1915.
________. "The Grey Wolf." New York: G. Ricordi, 1915.
________. "Hail to the King!" New York: W. Maxwell, 1907.
________. "He Met Her in the Meadow." New York: G. Ricordi, 1921.
________. "Heigh-ho!" New York: Maxwell, 1904.
________. "He's Jus' de Same To-day." New York: G. Ricordi, 1919.
________. "I L'oe My Jean." New York: Maxwell, 1904.
________. "I Want to Die While You Love me." New York: G. Ricordi,
1919.
________. "If Life Be a Dream." New York: Maxwell, 1904.
________. "In the Great Somewhere." New York: G. Ricordi, 1919.
________. "Jean." New York: Maxwell, 1903.
________. "Just a Wearyin' for You." New York: Maxwell, 1906.
________. "Just Because." New York: Maxwell, 1906.
________. "Just My Love and I : Boat Song." New York: Maxwell, 1904.
________. "Just you." New York: G. Ricordi, 1915.
________. "Keep a Good Grip on de Hoe." New York: William Maxwell,
1905.
________. "Little Mother of Mine." New York: G. Ricordi, 1917.
________. "Love Found the Way." New York: G. Ricordi, 1922.
________. "Lovely Dark and lonely one." S.l.: S.n., 1930.
________. "Love's Dawning." New York: Maxwell, 1906.
________. "Love's Pleading." New York: Maxwell, 1904.
________. "Malay Boat Song." New York: Maxwell, 1906.
________. "Mammy's Little Baby." [New York]: William Maxwell, 1903.
________. "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal." New York: Maxwell, 1908.
________. "O Perfect Love: Wedding Song." New York: Maxwell, 1904.
________. "O Why Art Thou Not Near Me!: Serenade." New York: Maxwell,
1904.
________. "Oh, My Love." New York: G. Ricordi, 1919.
________. "Oh! Rock Me, Julie." New York: G. Ricordi, 1921.
________. "One Day." New York: Maxwell, 1904.
________. "One year, 1914-1915." [New York]: G. Ricordi, 1916.
________. "Perhaps." New York: Maxwell, 1906.
________. "Promis' Lan' : a Hallelujah Song." New York: G. Ricordi,
1917.
________. "Request." New York: Maxwell, 1905.
________. "The Sailor's Wife." New York: G. Ricordi, 1917.
________. "The Soldier." New York: G. Ricordi, 1916.
________. "Somewhere." New York: Maxwell, 1907.
________. "Tide." New York: Maxwell, 1905.
________. "Three Shadows." New York: G. Ricordi, 1916.
________. "Through Love's Eternity." New York: Maxwell, 1906.
________. "Through Peace to Light." New York: Maxwell, 1905.
________. "The Trees Have Grown So." New York: G. Ricordi, 1923.
________. "Two Words." New York: Maxwell, 1908.
________. "Waiting." New York: Maxwell, 1904.
________. "The Young Warrior." [Il giovane guerriero]. New York: G.
Ricordi,
1915.
Burleigh, Harry Thacker.
Album of Negro Spirituals
. New York:
Franco Columbo, : ? 1928.
Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen -- Ev'ry Time I Feel de
Spirit -- Deep River
-- De Blin' Man Stood on de Road an' Cried -- Stan'
Still Jordan -- By an' By
-- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child --
Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray -- De
Gospel Train -- Weepin' Mary -- Were You
There? -- Wade in de Water
________.
Five Songs of Laurence Hope
. New York: G. Ricordi, c1915.
Worthwhile -- The Jungle Flower -- Kashmiri Song -- Among the
Fuchsias; Till I
wake
________.
Negro Minstrel Melodies : a Collection of Twenty-five
Songs with Piano
Accompaniment
. Schirmer's Household Series of Music
Books. New York: G. Schirmer, 1910.
Passionale: Four Songs for Tenor.
New York: G. Ricordi, 1915.
Her Eyes Twin Pools -- Your Lips Are Wine -- Your Eyes So Deep
-- The Glory of
the Day Was in Her Face
________.
Plantation Melodies Old and New
. New York: G.
Schirmer, 1901.
I Doan' Want Fu' t'Stay Hyeah No Longah (R.E. Phillips) -- My Lawd's
A-writing
Down Time (Phillips) -- When de Debble Comes 'Round (Phillips)
-- De Blackbird
an' de Crow (Phillips) -- My Merlindy Brown (J.E.
Campbell) -- My Merlindy
Brown (Campbell) -- Negro Lullaby (Campbell) --
An Ante-Bellum Sermon (P.L.
Dunbar)
Plantation Songs
. New York: G. Schirmer, 1902.
Ring, My Bawnjer, Ring (J.E. Campbell) -- "You'll Git Gar in de Mornin'
(F.
Stanton)
________.
Saracen songs
. New York: G. Ricordi, 1914.
Almona -- O, Night of Dream and Wonder -- His Helmet's Blaze -- I Hear
His
Footsteps, Music Sweet -- Thou Art Weary -- This Is Nirvana --
Ahmed's Song of
Farewell.
________.
The Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh
. Miami, FL: Belwin
Mills, 1984.
Ain't Goin' to Study War No Mo' -- Balm in Gilead -- Behold That Star --
By an'
By -- Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray -- De Blin' Man Stood on de Road
an' Cried --
De Gospel Train -- Deep River -- Didn't My Lord Deliver
Daniel -- Don't Be
Weary Traveler -- Don't You Weep When I'm Gone -- Ev'ry
Time I Feel the Spirit
-- Give Me Jesus -- Go Down in the Lonesome
Valley -- Go Down Moses -- Go Tell
It on de Mountains -- Hard Trials --
Hear de Lambs a-Cryin' -- Heav'n Heav'n --
He's Just de Same Today -- I
Don't Feel No-Ways Tired -- I Got a Home in a-Dat
Rock -- I Know de
Lord's Laid His Hands on Me -- I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon
-- I've Been
in de Storm So Long -- I Want to Be Ready -- John's Gone Down on
de Island
-- Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho -- Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler
--
Little David Play on Your Harp -- My Lord What a Mornin' -- My Way's
Cloudy
-- Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen -- Oh Didn't It Rain -- Oh
Wasn't Dat a
Wide Ribber -- Oh Peter Go Ring dem Bells -- O Rocks Don't
Fall on Me -- Ride
On King Jesus -- Sinner Please Doan Let dis Harves'
Pass -- Sometimes I Feel
Like a Motherless Child -- Stan' Still Jordan --
Steal Away -- Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot -- 'Tis Me O Lord -- Wade in de
Water -- Weepin' Mary -- Were You
There? -- You May Bury Me in de Eas'
________.
Three Songs
. New York: G. Schirmer, 1898.
If You But Knew -- Life -- A Birthday Song
________.
Two poems.
New York : G. Ricordi, 1914.
Updated: February 4, 1998.
