Working list of sources referenced across Writings, in Chicago Notes-Bibliography style. Additional titles are being reviewed and will be added as they are confirmed.
- Harmony and Voice Leading. 5th ed. Cengage Learning, 2018. View on Amazon
- Conducting: The Art of Communication. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2014. View on Amazon
- Run It Like a Business: Strategies for Arts Organizations to Increase Audiences, Remain Relevant, and Multiply Money—Without Losing the Art. BenBella Books, 2024. View on Amazon
- Wagner Without Fear: Learning to Love—and Even Enjoy—Opera's Most Demanding Genius. Vintage Books, 1998. View on Amazon
- Treatise on Instrumentation. Translated by Theodore Front. Dover Publications, 1991. View on Amazon
- Music Lessons. Translated by Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Goldman, and Arnold Whittall. Faber & Faber, 2018. View on Amazon
- Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures. Translated by Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Goldman, and Arnold Whittall. University of Chicago Press, 2018. View on Amazon
- Orientations: Collected Writings. Edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Translated by Martin Cooper. Harvard University Press, 1990. View on Amazon
- The Leschetizky Method: A Guide to Fine and Correct Piano Playing. Dover Publications, 1997. View on Amazon
- Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Oxford University Press, 2000. View on Amazon
- French Spectral Music: An Introduction to the Techniques and Processes. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016. View on Amazon
- The Idea of Absolute Music. Translated by Roger Lustig. University of Chicago Press, 1991. View on Amazon
- The Music of the Most Ancient Nations, Particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Hebrews. John Murray, 1864 (Forgotten Books reprint). View on Amazon
- Learn Faster, Perform Better: A Musician's Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing. Oxford University Press, 2024. View on Amazon
- The Modern Conductor. 7th ed. Pearson, 2003. View on Amazon
- Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata. Oxford University Press, 2011. View on Amazon
- Medieval Music. W. W. Norton, 1978. View on Amazon
- Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance. Cornell University Press, 1998. View on Amazon
- Flourish with Fireworks: Full Score. Faber Music, 1998. View on Amazon
- Music for Score Reading. Prentice-Hall, 1971. View on Amazon
- Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787–1791. Oxford University Press, 2014. View on Amazon
- Boris Godunov in Full Score. Orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Dover Publications, 1987. View on Amazon
- Absolutely on Music: Conversations. Translated by Jay Rubin. Knopf, 2016. View on Amazon
- The Art of Reharmonization: Advanced Techniques for Modern Harmony Using Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro. mDecks Music, 2023. View on Amazon
- Leschetizky's Fundamental Principles of Piano Technique. Dover Publications, 2005. View on Amazon
- Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. View on Amazon
- Theory of Harmony. Translated by Roy E. Carter. 100th anniversary ed. University of California Press, 2010. View on Amazon
- How to Write for Percussion: A Comprehensive Guide to Percussion Composition. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2016. View on Amazon
- Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy. University of Toronto Press, 2003. View on Amazon
- Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory. 4th ed. W. W. Norton, 2022. View on Amazon
- Wittgenstein, Ethics, and Aesthetics: The View from Eternity. State University of New York Press, 1991. View on Amazon
- The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning. Zone Books, 2023. View on Amazon
- Contemporary Harmony: Romanticism Through the Twelve-Tone Row. Free Press, 1966. View on Amazon
- Conversations with Boulez: Thoughts on Conducting. Translated by Camille Naish. Amadeus Press, 1996. View on Amazon
- Viennese Harmonic Theory from Albrechtsberger to Schenker and Schoenberg. University of Rochester Press, 1985. View on Amazon
- Viennese Harmonic Theory from Albrechtsberger to Schenker and Schoenberg. Studies in Musicology. UMI Research Press, 1984. View on Amazon
- The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi. Cambridge University Press, 2007. View on Amazon