2Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music, 6vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, reprint, 2009) :Chronology, Bibliography, Master Index.
3Susan McClary, "The World according to Taruskin," a book review on Taruslin's The Oxford History of Western Music, Music & Letters, Vol. 87, No. 3 (2006), pp. 408- 415.
4Charles Rosen, "From the Troubadours to Frank Sinatra," The New York Review of Books, February 23, 2006.
5The Cambridge History of American Music, edited by David Nicholls (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
6The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music, edited by Jim Samson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 ).
7The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, edited by Thomas Christensen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
8The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, edited by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
9The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music, edited by Tim Carter and John Butt (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006).
10The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music, edited by Simon P. Keefe ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009).