Donald Jay Grout (September 28, 1902 – March 9, 1987) was an American musicologist.
The fourth edition was published by Columbia University Press in 2003.
He attended Syracuse University and graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1923.
[1] Early in his career, Grout's main body of research was in opera.
[1] A reassessment of Grout's historiography was published in 2011 in the inaugural volume of Journal of Music History Pedagogy.