Modern Music: A Concise History from Debussy to Boulez, Thames and Hudson, 1978 978-0-50-020164-0 (Revised&Subsequent version, 1994, ISBN 978-0-50-020278-4)
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Modern Music: The avant garde since 1945, Braziller, 1981 (revised and expanded as Modern Music and After: Directions since 1945, Oxford University Press, 1995 0-19-816511-0; third edition, Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-974050-5
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New Sounds, New Personalities: British composers of the 1980s in conversation with Paul Griffiths, Faber and Faber, 1985
The Substance of Things Heard: writings about music, Volume 31 of Eastman Studies in Music, University of Rochester Press, 2005. 1-58046-206-5
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Music history and criticism
Monographs on 20th-century composers
Librettos
Novels and short stories
Cummings, Paul (ed.), , International Who's Who in Classical Music, Europa Publications, 2003, p. 299. ISBN 978-1-85743-174-2.
"Griffths, Paul"
Kennedy, Michael and Bourne, Joyce (eds), , The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, 5th edition, Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-920383-3. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
"Griffths, Paul"
Kerner, Leighton, , The Village Voice, 11 November 1997. Accessed via subscription 30 August 2009.
"Mind voyager"
Kimberley, Nick, , The Independent, 15 November 1998. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
"North by East-West"
"Aeneas in Hell: The Sequel", The Washington Post, 20 November 1995. Accessed via subscription 30 August 2009.
McLellan, Joseph
"6 Characters in Search of a Dimension, in Different Operatic Tempos", The New York Times, 10 December 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
Tommasini, Anthony
Tonkin, Boyd, , The Independent, 16 January 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
"Singing in the chains: a tongue-tied heroine"
Official web site
Selected writings