■ Arhipov, Sergei. The Apostol: Epistle Readings, Prokimena, Alleluia Verses and Antiphons for the Entire Liturgical Year. South Canaan, Pa.: St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press, 1996.
■ Biezen, J. van. The Middle Byzantine Kanon-notation of Manuscript H.: A Paleographic Study With a Transcription of the Melodies of 13 Kanons and a Triodon. Bilthoven: A. B. Creyghton, 1969.
■ Brill, Nicholas P. History of Russian Church Music, 988–1917. Bloomington, Ill.: Brill, 1980.
■ Conomos, Dimitri E. Byzantine Trisagia and Cheroubika of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: A Study of Late Byzantine Liturgical Chant. Thessaloniki: Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies, 1974.
■ ———. Byzantine Hymnography and Byzantine Chant. Brookline, Mass.: Hellenic College Press, 1984.
■ ———. The Late Byzantine and Slavonic Communion Cycle: Liturgy and Music. Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1985.
■ Cooper, Henry R. Slavic Scriptures: The Formation of the Church Slavonic Version of the Holy Bible. Madison, N. J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003.
■ Duichev, Ivan. Kiril and Methodius: Founders of Slavonic Writing: A Collection of Sources and Critical Studies. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, distrib. Columbia University Press, 1985.
■ Duncan, Stephen F. The History of the Sacred Musical Life of an Orthodox Church in America. Lewiston, N. Y.: Edwin Mellen, 2004.
■ Farrow, Michael G. Psalm Verse of the Orthodox Liturgy: Antiphonal, Entrance, Prokeimena, Alleluia, and Comminion [sic] Hymn Verses and their Biblical Citations According to Both the Greek and Slav Usages. Torrance, Calif.: Oakwood Publications, 1997.
■ Gardiner, S.C. Old Church Slavonic: An Elementary Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
■ Gardner, Johannes von. Russian Church Singing. 2 vols. Guilford, Conn.: Orthodox Music Press, 1980.
■ Habbi, Antun. Short Course in Byzantine Ecclesiastical Music. Newton, Mass.: Greek Melkite Catholic Diocese of Newton, 1988.
■ Hannick, Christian. "Reference Materials on Byzantine and Old Slavic Music and Hymnography." Journal of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society 13 (1990): 83–89.
■ Ho, Allan and Dmitry Feofanov. Biographical Dictionary of Russian/Soviet Composers. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1989.
■ Louth, Andrew. St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
■ Morosan, Vladimir. Choral Performance in Pre-Revolutionary Russia. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1986.
■ Raasted, Jürgen. "Compositional Devices in Byzantine Chant." Cahiers de L’Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et Latin 59 (1989): 247–270.
■ ———. "Koukouzeles Revision of the Sticherarion and Sinai gr. 1230." Laborare fratres in unum: Festschrift László Dobszay zum 60. Geburtstag. Ed. Janka. Szendrei and David Hiley. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 1995), pp. 261–77.
■ Roccasalvo, Joan. I. The Plain Chant Tradition of Southwestern Rus’. Boulder, Co.: East European Monographs, 1986.
■ Romanou, Kaite. "A New Approach to the Work of Chrysanthos of Madytos: The New Method of Musical Notation in the Greek Church and the Mega theoretikon tes mousikes." Studies in Eastern Chant 5. Ed. Dimitri E. Conomos. Crestwood, N. Y.: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1991, pp. 89–100.
■ Smrzík, Stephen. The Glagolitic or Roman-Slavonic Liturgy. Cleveland, Oh.: Slovak Institute, 1959.
■ Svövérffy, Joseph, and Eva C. Topping. A Guide to Byzantine Hymnography: A Classified Bibliography of Texts and Studies. Brookline, Mass.: Classical Folia Editions; Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1979–.
■ Swan, A. J. Russian Music and its Sources in Chant and Folksong. London: 1973.
■ The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. 3 vols. Ed. Alexander P. Kazhdan, et al. New York: Oxford, 1991.
■ Taft, Robert F. The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The Origins of the Divine Office and Its Meaning for Today. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1986.
■ Touliatos-Banker, Diane. "The Byzantine Orthros." Byzantina 9 (1977): 324–83.
■ Vaporis, N. M. Three Byzantine Sacred Poets: Studies of Saint Romanos Melodos, Saint of Damascus, Saint Symeon the New Theologian. Brookline, Mass.: Hellenic College Press, 1979.
■ Wolfram, Gerda, et al. Die Erotapokriseis des Pseudo-Johannes Damaskenos zum Kirchengesang. Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997.
■ Wellesz, Egon. A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography. Rev. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.
ANGLICAN
■ Baldwin, David. The Chapel Royal: Ancient and Modern. London: Duckworth, 1990.
■ Benham, Hugh. Latin Church Music in England, c. 1460–1575. London: Barrie & Barrie, 1975.
■ Caldwell, John. Oxford History of English Music: Vol. 1: From the Beginnings to c. 1715. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
■ Daniel, Ralph T. The Sources of English Church Music, 1549–1660. London: Stainer and Bell for the British Academy, 1972.
■ Dearnley, Christopher. English Church Music, 1650–1750. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
■ Dexter, Keri. ‘A good Quire of voices’: The Provision of Choral Music at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and Eton College, c. 1640–1733. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2002.
■ Frost, Maurice. Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient and Modern. London: Printed for the Proprietors by William Cleves and Sons, 1962.
■ Gatens, William J. Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
■ Glover, Raymond F., gen. ed. The Hymnal 1982 Companion. 4 vols. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1990–.
■ Harrison, Frank Ll. Music in Medieval Britain. 4th ed.. Buren, The Netherlands: Knuf, 1980.
■ Hatchett, Marion J. A Liturgical Index to The Hymnal 1982. New York: Church Hymnal, 1986.
■ Hutchings, Arthur. Church Music in the Nineteenth Century. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1967.
■ Illing, Robert, and Thomas Sternhold. The English Metrical Psalter 1562: A Catalogue of the Early Editions, an Index to their Contents, and a Comparative Study of their Melodies. Adelaide: South Australian Government Printer, 1983.
■ Le Huray, Peter. Music and the Reformation in England: 1549–1660. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
■ Lindley, Simon. Muse and the Mass: The Choral Repertory and the Service of Holy Communion in the Anglican Church: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Croydon, England: Royal School of Church Music for the Church Music Society, 1991.
■ Long, Kenneth. The Music of the English Church. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991.
■ Parks, Edna D. Early English Hymns: An Index. Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow, 1972.
■ Perry, David W. Hymns and Tunes Indexed by First Lines, Tune Names, and Metres Complied from Current English Hymnbooks. Croydon, England: Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland and Royal School of Church Music, 1980.
■ Phillips, Peter. English Sacred Music 1549–1649. Oxford: Gimell, 1991.
■ Rainbow, Bernard. The Choral Revival in the Anglican Church, 1839–1872. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
■ Routley, Erik. A Short History of English Church Music. London: Mowbrays, 1977.
■ Scott, David. The Music of St. Paul’s Cathedral. London: Stainer and Bell and Galaxy Music Corp., 1972.
■ Sharp, Ian. The Liturgical Use of the Organ Voluntary. Croydon, England: Royal School of Church Music, 1984.
■ Shaw, H. Watkins Eighteenth Century Cathedral Music. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
■ Spink, Ian. Restoration Cathedral Music 1660–1714. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
■ Stevens, Denis. Tudor Church Music. New York: Merlin, 1955. Rpt. 1966.
■ Tamke, Susan S. Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord: Hymns as a Reflection of Victorian Social Attitudes. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1978.
■ Temperley, Nicholas. The Music of the English Parish Church. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
■ Turbet, Richard. Tudor Music: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Garland, 1994.
■ Wienandt, Elwyn A., and Robert H. Young. The Anthem in England and America. New York: Free Press, 1970.
■ Wilson, Ruth Mack. Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660 to 1820. Oxford: Clarendon Press and Oxford University Press, 1996.
■ Yeats-Edwards, Paul. English Church Music: A Bibliography. London: White Lion, 1975.
■ Zim, Rivkah. English Metrical Psalms: Poetry as Praise and Prayer, 1535–1601. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
LUTHERAN
■ Blume, Friederich. Protestant Church Music: A History. German ed. 1965. New York: Norton, 1974.
■ Daniel, Thomas. Der Choralsatz bei Bach und seiner Zeitgenossen: eine historische Satzlehre. Cologne: Dohr, 2000.
■ Dürr, Alfred, and Walther Killy. Das Protestantische Kirchenlied im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert: Text-, musik- und theologiegeschichtliche Probleme. Wiesbaden: In Kommission bei O. Harrasowitz, 1986.
■ Gissel, Siegfried. Untersuchungen zur mehrstimmigen protestantischen Hymnenkomposition in Deutschland um 1600. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1983.
■ Hendrickson, Marion Lars. Musica Christi: A Lutheran Aesthetic. Peter Lang, 2005.
■ Herl, Joseph. Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
■ Krummacher, Friedhelm. Die Choralbearbeitung in der protestantischen Figuralmusik zwischen Praetorius und Bach. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1978.
■ Leaver, Robin A. "The Lutheran Reformation." The Renaissance. Iain Fenlon, ed. London: Macmillan, 1989.
■ Liemohn, Edwin. The Chorale through Four Hundred Years. Philadelphia, Pa.: Muhlenberg Press, 1953.
■ Mahrenholz, Christhard, and Oskar Söhngen. Handbuch zum evangelischen Kirchengesangbuch. 3 vols. Göttingen: Vandenoeck & Ruprecht, 1953–1970.
■ Marshall, Robert L. Luther, Bach, and the Early Reformation Chorale. Atlanta, Ga.: Pitts Theological Library, 1995.
■ Nettl, Paul. Luther and Music. Trans. Frida Best and Ralph Wood. Philadelphia, Pa.: Muhlenberg Press, 1948.
■ Riedel, Johannes. The Lutheran Chorale: Its Basic Traditions. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Publishing House, 1967.
■ Schacht-Pape, Ute. Das Messenschaffen von Alessandro Scarlatti. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1993.
■ Schalk, Carl. Luther and Music: Paradigms of Praise. St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia, 1988.
■ Stevenson, Robert M. Patterns of Protestant Church Music. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1953.
■ Stulken, Marilyn Kay. Hymnal Companion to the Lutheran Book of Worship. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fortress Press, 1981.
■ Walker, Paul. Church, Stage, and Studio: Music and its Contexts in Seventeenth-Century Germany. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1990.
■ Werning, Daniel J. A Selected Source Index for Hymn and Chorale Tunes in Lutheran Worship Books. St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia, 1985.
CALVINIST (REFORMED)
■ Bouwsma, William J. John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
■ Haeussler, Armin. The Story of Our Hymns: The Handbook to the Hymnal of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. St. Louis, Mo.: Eden Publishing House, 1952.
■ Leaver, Robin A. Goostly Psalmes and Spirituall Songes: English and Dutch Metrical Psalms from Coverdale to Utenhove: 1535–1566. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
■ Potter, George R. Zwingli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
■ Pratt,Waldo Selden. The Music of the French Psalter of 1562. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939.
■ Vischer, Lukas. Christian Worship in Reformed Churches Past and Present. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans, 2003.
AMERICAN PROTESTANT
■ Adams, Charles B. Our Moravian Hymn Heritage: Chronological Listing of Hymns and Tunes of Moravian Origin in the American Moravian Hymnal of 1969. Bethlehem, Pa.: Moravian Church of America, 1984.
■ Anderson, E. Byron. Worship Matters: A United Methodist Guide to Ways to Worship. Nashville, Tenn.: Discipleship Resources, 1999.
■ Bruce, Dickson, Jr. And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp Meeting Religion, 1800–1845. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1974.
■ Buechner, Alan. Yankee Singing Schools and the Golden Age of Choral Music in New England, 1760–1800. Boston: Boston University for The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 2003.
■ Christ-Janer, Albert, Charles W. Hughes, and Carleton Sprague Smith. American Hymns, Old and New. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
■ Cobb, Buell E., Jr. The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and its Music. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
■ Cornwall, J. Spencer. Stories of Our Mormon Hymns. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1975.
■ Daniel, Ralph T. The Anthem in New England before 1800. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1966.
■ Diehl, Katharine Smith. Hymns and Tunes: An Index. New York: Scarecrow, 1966. Ellinwood, Leonard W. Dictionary of American Hymnology: First Line Index: A Project of the Hymn Society of America. 179 microfilm reels with printed guide. New York: University Music Editions, 1984.
■ Forbes, Bruce D., and Jeffrey H. Mahan. Religion and Popular Culture in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
■ Howard, Jay R. Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
■ Hoge, Dean R., Benton Johnson, and Donald A. Luidens. Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers. Westminster, Oh.: John Knox, 1994.
■ Hostetler, Lester. Handbook to the Mennonite Hymnary. Newton, Kans.: General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America, 1949.
■ Jackson, George Pullen. White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933.
■ Klepper, Robert E. A Concordance of the Pilgrim Hymnal. Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow, 1989.
■ ———. Methodist Hymnal Concordance. Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow, 1987.
■ Marini, Stephen A. Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
■ McKim, LindaJo H. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/ John Knox Press, 1993.
■ Miller, Kiri, et al. The Chattahoochee Musical Convention, 1852–2002: A Sacred Harp Historical Sourcebook. Carrollton, Ga.: Sacred Harp Museum, 2002.
■ Mouw, Richard J. Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2004.
■ Neufeld, Bernie. Music in Worship: A Mennonite Perspective. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press and Faith and Life Press, 1998.
■ Stevenson, Robert. Protestant Church Music in America. New York: Norton, 1970.
■ Turner, Ronald A. A Study Guide to Anthem Literature: History and Performance Practice. Louisville, Ky.: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1981.
■ Temperley, Nicholas. The Hymn Tune Index: A Census of English-Language Hymn Tunes in Printed Sources from 1535 to 1820. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York, Oxford University Press, 1998.
■ Young, Carlton R. Companion to the United Methodist Hymnal. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1993.
AFRICAN AMERICAN
■ Abbington, James. Readings in African American Church Music and Worship. Chicago, Ill.: GIA Publications, 2001.
■ Anderson, Robert and Gail North. Gospel Music Encyclopedia. New York: Sterling, 1979.
■ Boyer, Horace Clarence. How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel. Washington, D.C.: Elliott & Clark, 1995.
■ Cone, James H. The Spirituals and the Blues. 2nd ed. Maryknoll, N. Y.: Orbis Books, 1991.
■ Cusic, Don. The Sound of Light: A History of Gospel Music. Bowling Green, Oh.: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990.
■ Epstein, Dena. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
■ Goff, James R. Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
■ Harris, MichaelW. The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992
■ Harvey, Louis-Charles. "Black Gospel Music and Black Theology." The Journal of Religious Thought 43:2 (Fall–Winter, 1986–1987), 19–37.
■ Jackson, Irene V. Afro-American Religious Music. Greenwood, 1979.
■ Johnson, Jason M. et al. Soul Sanctuary: Images of the African American Worship Experience. Bulfinch, 2006.
■ Jones, Arthur C. Wade in the Water: The Wisdom of the Spirituals. Maryknoll, N. Y.: Orbis Books, 1993.
■ Jones, Ferdinand, and Arthur C. Jones, eds. The Triumph of the Soul: Cultural and Psychological Aspects of African American Music. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001.
■ Leonard, Neil. Jazz: Myth and Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
■ Lovell, John, Jr. Black Song, The Forge and the Flame: The Story of How the Afro-American Spiritual Was Hammered Out. 2nd ed. New York: Paragon House, 1986.
■ Marsh, J. B. T. The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Boston: Houghton, 1880.
■ Moore, Allan, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
■ Nielsen, Aldon L. Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
■ Reagon, Bernice Johnson. If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
■ Reagon, Bernice Johnson, ed., "We’ll Understand It Better By and By": Pioneering African American Gospel Composers. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
■ Roberts, John Storm. Black Music of Two Worlds. New York: Praeger, 1972.
■ Sankey, Ira D. My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907.
■ Sizer, Sandra. Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Revivalism. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1978.
■ Spencer, Jon Michael. Protest & Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1990.
■ Turner, Steve. Amazing Grace: The Story of America’s Most Beloved Song. New York: Ecco, 2002.
■ Young, Alan. Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997
Jewish
■ Egger, Ellen M. A Singing Haggadah: An Illustrated Passover Haggadah with Traditional Chants and Melodies. Princeton, N. J.: L’Rakia Press, 1986.
■ Flender, Reinhard. Hebrew Psalmody: A Structural Investigation. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1992.
■ Gradenwitz, Peter. The Music of Israel: From the Biblical Era to Modern Times. Rev. ed. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1996.
■ Hoffman, Lawrence A. and Janet R. Walton. Sacred Sound and Social Change: Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience. South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.
■ Idelsohn, A. Z. Jewish Music in its Historical Development. New York: Schocken Books, 1967.
■ Jacobson, Joshua R. Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2002.
■ Lehnardt, Andreas. Qaddish: Untersuchungen zur Entstehung und Rezeption eines rabbinischen Gebetes. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002.
■ Levine, Lee I. The Synagogue in Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1987.
■ Neusner, Jacob. Judaism’s Theological Voice: The Melody of the Talmud. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
■ Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
■ Petuchowski, Jakob J. Theology and Poetry: Studies in the Medieval Piyyut. London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1977.
■ Portnoy, Marshall. The Art of Torah Cantillation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Chanting Torah. New York: UAHC, 2000.
■ Schach, Stephen R. The Structure of the Siddur. Northvale, N. J.: Jason Aronson, 1996.
■ Schiller, David M. Bloch, Schoenberg, and Bernstein: Assimilating Jewish Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
■ Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. Pizmon: Syrian–Jewish Religious and Social Song. Hohokus, N. J.: Shanachie, 1985.
■ ———. Studies in Jewish Musical Traditions: Insights from the Harvard Collection of Judaica Sound Recordings. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 2001.
■ Shiloah, Amnon. Jewish Musical Traditions. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
■ ———. The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Press, 1997.
■ Staiman, Mordechai. Niggun: Stories Behind the Chasidic Songs that Inspire Jews. Northvale, N. J.: Jason Aronson, 1994.
■ Swados, Elizabeth and Eli Wiesel. The Haggadah. New York: S. French, 1982.
■ Telzner, David, and Gabriel Sivan. The Kaddish: Its History and Significance. Jerusalem: Tal Orot Institute, 1995.
■ Tietze, Andreas, and Joseph Yahalom. Ottoman Melodies, Hebrew Hymns: A 16th Century Cross-Cultural Adventure. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1995.
■ Werner, Eric. A Voice Still Heard . . . : The Sacred Songs of the Askenazic Jews. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.
■ ———. From Generation to Generation: Studies of Jewish Musical Tradition. New York: American Conference of Cantors, 1967.
■ Wickes, William. Two Treatises on the Accentuation of the Old Testament. New York: Ktav, 1881, 1970.
■ Zeitlin, S. Z., and Haim Bar-Dayan. The Hebrew Calendar and the Cantillations for the Festivals of the Year. Tel-Aviv: S. Z. Zeitlin, 1984.
Islamic
■ Arcangeli, Piero G. Musica e Liturgia nella Cultura Mediterranea: Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Venezia 2–5 Ottobre 1985). Florence: L. S. Olschki, 1988.
■ Avery, Kenneth S. Psychology of Early Sufi Sama’: Listening and Altered States. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
■ Çagatāy, N. "The Tradition of Mavlid Recitations in Islam Particularly in Turkey," Studia Islamica 28 (1868): 127–.
■ During, Jean. "Revelation and Spiritual Audition in Islam," World of Music 3 (1982): 68–84.
■ ———. "What is Sufi Music?" The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism. Ed. Leonard Lewisohn. London: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi, 1992, pp. 277–87.
■ Ernst, Carl W. The Shambhala Guide to Sufism. Boston, Mass.: Shambhala, 1997.
■ Farmer, H. G. "The Religious Music of Islam," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1952): 60–65.
■ Faruqi, L. I. "The Cantillation of the Qur’ān," Asian Music 19:1 (1987): 2–25.
■ Kaptein, N. J. G. Muhammad’s Birthday Festival: Early History in the Central Muslim Lands and Development in the Muslim West until the 10th–16th Century. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993.
■ Kilpatrick, Hilary. Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author’s Craft in Abu l-Faraj al-Isbahani’s Kital al-Aghani. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
■ Muhaiyaddeen, M. R. Bawa. Dhikr: The Remembrance of God. Narbeth, Pa.: Fellowship Press, 1999.
■ Nasr, S. H. "Islam and Music," Studies in Comparative Religion 10 (1976): 37–45.
■ Nayyar, Adam. Qawwali. Islamabad: Lok Virsa Research Centre, 1988.
■ Nelson, Kristina. The Art of Reciting the Qur’an. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985.
■ Pacholczyk, Jósef M. Regulative Principles in the Koran Chant of Shaikn ‘Abdu’l-Basit ‘Abdu’s-Samad. Los Angeles: University of California, 1970.
■ Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt. "Sounding the Word: Music in the Life of Islam." Enchanting Powers: Music in the World’s Religions. Ed. Lawrence Sullivan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. 263–98.
■ ———. Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali. Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology. John Blacking, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
■ Sadler, A. W. Mysticism and Devotion in the Music of the Qawwali. New York: Performing Arts Program of the Asia Society, 1974.
■ Shiloah, Amnon. Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-cultural Study. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995
■ Simms, Rob. The Repertoire of Iraqi Maqam. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2004.
■ Sunbul, Sharif. Mulid!: Carnivals of Faith. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1999.
■ Surty, Muhammad Ibrahim Hafiz Ismail. A Course in ‘ilm al-Tajwid, the Science of Reciting the Qu’ran. Leicester, England: Islamic Foundation, 1992.
■ Touma, Habib, et al. The Music of the Arabs. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1996.
■ Waugh, Earle H. Memory, Music, and Religion Morocco’s Mystical Chanters. Charleston, S. C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2005.
Buddhist and Shinto
■ Abe, Ryuichi. The Weaving of Mantra: Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
■ Averbuch, Irit. The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura. Ithaca, N. Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1985.
■ Giesen, Walter. Zur Geschichte des buddhistischen Ritualgesangs in Japan. Kassel : Bärenreiter, 1977.
■ Gold, Lisa. Music in Bali. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
■ E. Harich-Schneider. "Dances and Songs of the Japanese Shinto Cult." World of Music 25: 1 (1983), 16–29.
■ Kaufmann, Walter. Tibetan Buddhist Chant: Musical Notations and Interpretations of a Song Book by the Bkah Brgyud Pa and Sa Skya Pa Sects. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975.
■ Kiehnle, Catharina. The Conservative Vaisnava: Anonymous Songs of the Jn˜andev Gātha. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 1997.
■ Lee, Byong Won. An Analytical Study of Sacred Buddhist Chant of Korea. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Xerox University Microfilms, 1974.
■ Malm, William P. Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments. New Edition. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2000.
■ Ortolani, Benito. The Japanese Theatre: From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Pluralism. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1990.
■ Tamba, Akira. Musique Traditionnelles du Japon: Des Origines au XVIe Siècle. Arles: Cité de la Musique, 1995.
Hindu
■ Bhagyalekshmy, S. Carnatic Music Compositions: An Index. Trivandrum, India: CBH Publications, 1994.
■ Chandra, Moti. Gīta Govinda. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademie, 1980.
■ Clayton, Martin. Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre, and Form in North Indian Rag Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
■ Gaston, Anne-Marie. Krishna’s Musicians: Musicians and Music Making in the Temples of Nathdvara, Rajasthan. New Dehli: Manoshar, 1997.
■ Gautam, M. R. Evolution of Raga and Tala in Indian Music. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharial, 1989.
■ Howard, Wayne. Sāmavedic Chant. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977.
■ Jackson, William J. Tyagaraja, Life and Lyrics. Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
■ Lohan, Marie. Kirtana. Montreux: Minerva Press, 1996.
■ Nijenhuis, Emmie te, et al. Sacred Songs of India: Diksitar’s Cycle of Hymns to the Goddess Kamala. Wintherthur, Switz: Amadeus, 1987.
■ Ranade, Ashok D. Keywords and Concepts: Hindustani Classical Music. New Dehli: Promilla: 1990.
■ Sundaram, B. M. Tala Sangraha: Compendium of Talas in Karnatak Music. Bangalore: Percusive Arts Centre, 1987.
■ Tirtha, B. B. and B. V. Tripurari. Bhajan: Mantras of Mercy. Novato, Calif.: Mandala, 2002.
■ Viswanathan, T., andMatthew Harp Allen. Music in South India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
■ Wade, Bonnie C. Music in India: The Classical Traditions. Rev. ed. New Dehli: Manohar, 1999.
Tribal
■ Carrington, John F. Talking Drums of Africa. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1949. Rpt. 1969.
■ Harvey, Graham and Karen Ralls. Indigenous Religious Musics. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2000.
■ Friedson, Steven M. Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
■ Nketia, J. H. Kwabena. Drumming in Akan Communities in Ghana. Edinburgh: T. Nelson, 1963.
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