The bibliographies and indexes listed here are a representative sample of reference books available on the open shelves of the Rare Books & Music Reading Room.
| Britton, Allen Perdue | American sacred music imprints 1698-1810: a bibliography ... Allen Perdue Britton and Irving Lowens ... completed by Richard Crawford (Worcester, Mass., 1990). |
| Diehl, Katharine | Hymns and tunes: an index (New York, London, 1966). |
| Yeats-Edwards, Paul | English church music: a bibliography (London, 1975). |
| Hiley, David | Western plainchant: a handbook (Oxford, 1995). |
| Hoon, Jos de, Bodden, S. & Becker, P. | Bibliography of hymns and Gregorian chant from the sixteenth century to 1991 (Utrecht, 1996). |
| Lincoln, Harry B. | The Latin motet: indexes to printed collections, 1500-1600 (Ottawa, 1993). |
| Orr, N. Lee | Choral music in nineteenth-century America : a guide to the sources (Lanham, Md., 1999). |
| Perry, David W. | Hymns and tunes indexed by first lines, tune names and metres (Croydon, 1980). |
| Phillips, Peter | English sacred music 1549-1649 (Oxford, 1991). |
| Smither, Howard E. | A history of the oratorio (Chapel Hill, 1977- ). |
| Studwell, William E. | Christmas carols: a reference guide (New York, London, 1985). |
| Temperley, Nicholas | The hymn tune index: a census of English-language hymn tunes in printed sources from 1535 to 1820 (Oxford, 1998). 4 vols. |
| Zahn, Johannes | Die Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder aus den Quellen geschöpft und mitgeteilt von J. Zahn (Gütersloh, 1899-93). 6 vols. |
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