Archives
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Private holdings of the descendants of Cécile Chaminade
United States Library of Congress
Publisher
Editions Enoch & Cie
Newspapers and Periodicals
Le Monde Archive
New York Times Evening News Archive
U.S. Library of Congress Catalog
Carnegie Hall Performance History database
Collections of Concert Programs in the United Kingdom
Newspaper Archive and American Historical Newspapers
Articles
Chaminade, Cécile. “How to Play My Best Known Pieces.” The Etude 26 (December 1908): 759–760.
___________. “Recollections of my Musical Childhood.” The Etude 29 (December 1911): 809-10.
___________. “The Scarf Dance” and “Autumn.”” The Etude 48 (December 1930): 908-09.
___________. “How to Play My Compositions.” The Ladies Home Journal vol. 25 (October 1908): 23.
___________. “How to Sing and Play My Compositions.” The Ladies Home Journal vol. 22 (November 1905): 19.
___________. “Told by Chaminade.” The Etude 27 (January 1909): 69.
___________. “Georges Bizet,” The Century Library of Music, ed. Ignace Jan Paderewski (New York: The Century Co., 1900), vol. 6: 166.
“Chaminade’s Farewell Concert” The Musical Courier 1908-12-23: Vol 57 Iss 26 p.8
“Mme. Cecile Chaminade,” The Musician 13, no. 10 (October 1908): 446.
Ellis, Katharine. “Female Pianists and Their Male Critics in Nineteenth-Century Paris.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, 50/2-3 (1997): 353–385.
___________. “Paris, 1866: In Search of French Music.” Music and Letters 91 no. 4 (November 2010): 536-554.
De Guichard, Arthur. “Cécile Chaminade.” The Musician (March 19, 1914): 165
Jerrould, John. “Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade.” American Music Teacher 37, no. 3 (1988): 22–23.
Meltzer, Charles. “An Interview with Cecile Chaminade.” The Musical Age 62, no. 13 (1908): 13.
Middleton, Ethelyn Friend. “The Idol of a Personal Glimpse of Mademoiselle Chaminade.” The Ladies’ Home Journal vol. 17 (February 1900): 7.
Moegle, Steele. “Cécile Chaminade, Pianist and Composer.” IAWM Journal: International Alliance for Women in Music 19, no. 2 (December 2013): 14.
“Of Matters Musical: Interview with Mademoiselle Chaminade,” Black and White 12, no. 305, (December 5, 1896): 725.
Perry, Edward Baxter “Sophie Menter and Cécile Chaminade.” The Etude 17 (November 1899): 348.
Suchowiejko, Renata. “Polish Musicians in the Concert Life of Interwar Paris: Short Press Overview and Extensive Bibliographic Guide” Journal of Music Criticism, vol. 4, (2020), 53–80.
Sutherland, Bryon. “French Composer Cécile Chaminade Created Romantic Salon Pieces (A Portrait of the Composer Including Examples of Her Piano Music).” Clavier 40, no. 7 (2001): 26-33.
Ward, Stephens. “Cécile Chaminade.” The Etude, 17, (June 1899), no. 6, 184-186.
Dissertations and Books
Aichele, Michele Mai. “Cécile Chaminade as a Symbol for American Women, 1890-1920.” PhD thesis, University of Iowa, 2019.
Citron, Marcia J. Cécile Chaminade: A Bio-Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
___________. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
___________. “Chaminade, Cécile.” Grove Music Online.
Crawshaw, Sandra Noeline. “The Reception of the Music of Cécile Chaminade in Colonial New Zealand (1894 – 1934): Contexts and Institutions.” MA thesis, University of Otago, 2015.
Hamer, Laura Ann. “Musiciennes: Women musicians in France during the interwar years, 1919-1939.” PhD thesis, Cardiff University, 2009.
Kerr, Laura. Scarf Dance: The Story of Cecile Chaminade. New York: Abelard Press, 1953.
Leung-Wolf, Elaine. “Women, Music, and the Salon Tradition: Its Cultural and Historical Significance in Parisian Musical Society.” DMA thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1996.
McCann, Karen Jee-Hae. “Cécile Chaminade: A Composer at Work.” MA thesis, University of British Columbia, 2003.
Oh, Sun-Young. “The Piano Works of Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944).” DMA thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2000.
Reynolds, Christopher A. “ Women’s Song Composers: A Database of Songs Published in the United States and England, ca. 1890-1930,
Rosenberg, Vidigal. “Composing Women: Representations of Women in the Music of Augusta Holmès and Cécile Chaminade.” PhD thesis, University of California, Davis, 2021.
Schultz, Rebekah Leigh. “A Historical Study of Cécile Chaminade: Pianist, Composer, and Music Educator.” PhD thesis, The University of Mississippi, 2023.
Smith, Robin. “The Mélodies of Cécile Chaminade: Hidden Treasures for Vocal Performance and Pedagogy.” DMA thesis, Indiana University, 2012.
Stankis, Jessica E. “Rethinking Cécile Chaminade’s Concert Tour of the United States, 1908.” MA thesis, Arizona State University, 2006.
Tardif, Cécile. Portrait de Cécile Chaminade. L. Courteau, 1993.
Zhou, Melody. “The Reception of Cécile Chaminade’s Music and the Idea of the Woman Composer.” MA thesis, University of North Carolina, 2021.
Newspaper Articles
Cole, Ida B. “Mme Chamiande, famous French Composer. Calls Women Here “Adorable” St. Louis Star, 25 November 25, 1908.
“Mme. Chaminade’s Dreams” The Sun, November 1, 1908 p. 2
Richard Langham Smith. “Sister of Perpetual Indulgence.” The Musical Times , vol. 135, no. 18, December 22, 1994, 740–44.
Anthony Walter. “Cecile Chaminade, True Parisienne and Popular Composer, to Make American Tour,” The San Francisco Call August 24, 1908, 6.
“Mme. Chaminade, Greatest Woman Composer, Who is Now Visiting America, Tells of Her Dreams,” The Washington Post, November 1, 1908, “Magazine” section, p. 4.
“Mme. Chaminade Appears,” The Boston Evening Transcript, October 26, 1908): p. 7
“Chaminade Delights Brilliant Audience,” The Washington Times, December 9 1908, 6
“Mme. Chaminade Dreams Her Music,” The Boston Herald, November 1 1908, 8
Blumenberg, Marc. “Reflections by the Editor: The Chaminade Instance,” Musical Courier 57, no. 27 (December 30, 1908): p. 21-22.
Bullet, Emma. “Cecile Chaminade. Retriever of Her Family’s Fortunes. Her Rare Musical Genius – Composing to America.” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 22, 1897: 17
Greeley-Smith, Nixola. “World’s Greatest Woman Composer, Who cannot Speak English, Gives an Interview in Music.” The Evening World New York, October 20, 1908, 3.
Jacob, O.P. “Modernism Effaces Melody and Form, Deplores Mme. Chaminade.” The Sun, Musical Courier 31 (December 27, 1919): 6.
“Chaminade’s Tolerance,” The Musical Leader and Concert Goer 14, December 17, 1908, 5.
Mitchell, “The Composer of the Little Silver Ring,” New Idea Woman’s Magazine, May 1907, 27.
“Mme. Chaminade, Greatest Woman Composer, Who is Now Visiting America, Tells of Her Dreams,” The Washington Post, November 1, 1908.
Glenn Dillard Gunn, “Mme. Chaminade Talks of the Music of the Present,” The Inter Ocean, November 22, 1908, 9.
“Cecile Chaminade to Feature Week,” Milwaukee Sentinel, 15 November 1908, part 3, p. 5: “Chaminade is an artist whose life has been strangely free from startling history.”
“Mme. Chaminade’s Dreams: A Talk With the Greatest Woman Composer.” The Sun, November 1, 1908, Section 2, p. 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
“MMe. Chaminade’s Concert,” The Evening Post, October 26, 1908.
“Philadelphia Orchestra,” Ledger, November 7, 1908.
Glenn Dillard Gunn, “Mme. Chaminade Talks of the Music of the Present,” Inter Ocean (Chicago), November 22, 1908, p. 9.
Henry E. Krehbiel, “Mme. Chaminade’s Concert,” New York Daily Tribune, October 25, 1908.
Richard Aldrich, “Mlle. Chaminade’s Concert,” The New York Times, October 25, 1908.
- de La Perrière, “Les Femmes Compositeurs en France dans ces Dernières Années,” Paris Musical et
Artistique, December 4, 1908.
Cécile Chaminade, “Scarf Dance” (New York: American Music Teachers Protective Association Publishing Co., 1909), 1-5.
Chaminade, “Scarf Dance” (Philadelphia: Morris Music Co., 1907), 1-6.
Chaminade, “Scarf Dance” (Chicago: McKinley Music Co.), 1-3.
Chaminade, “Scarf Dance” (New York: G. Schirmer, 1891), 1-3.
Julia Hecht, “Mme. Chaminade,” New Century Path, December 20, 1903, 7, ProQuest.
Chaminade, “Immortalité” (Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1900), 1-4.
“Winter Club Meeting: An Autographed Letter Received from Mlle. Chaminade,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 22, 1899, 37.
Unpublished Sources
Lorel, Antoinette. “Viatique,” typescript (1948).
Websites
https://musee.sacem.fr/index.php/MultiSearch/Index?search=cecile+chaminade
The Biggest Tour of 1900s America
Podcast
The Life and Music of Cecile Chaminade: Genius has no Gender