- Ruth Katz: The Powers of Music. Aesthetic Theory and the Intervention of Opera, London1994.
- Gary Tomlinson: Metaphysical Song. An Essay on Opera, Princeton Univ. Press, New Jersey 1998. ISBN 0-691-00408-0 (paperback)
- F. Sternfeld: The Birth of Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-19-816130-1
- Jette Barnhold Hansen: Den klingende tale. 澳门葡京手机版app下载 i de f?rste hofoperaers 'stile monodico' p? baggrund af senren?ssansens retorikreception. Aarhus Univ. 2001/Kompendium UniPub
KOMPENDIUM VOL. I:
- Eric Chafe: "Aspects of durus/mollis shift and the two-system framework of Monteverdi's music", in: Werner Breig (hrsg.) Schütz-Jahrbuch, Kassel 1991, pp.171-206
- Gary Tomlinson: "Madrigal, monody, and Monteverdi's via naturale alla Imitatione", in: Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, Spring 1982, pp. 60-108
- Gary Tomlinson: "Kap. 1: Oppositions in Late-Renaissance thought: Three Case Studies", pp. 3-32, in: Claudio Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance, Chicago Univ. Press, Chicago/London 1993
- Gary Tomlinson: "Kap. 10: Monteverdi and Italian Culture, 1550-1700", pp. 243-260, in: Claudio Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1987
- N. Pirrotta: "Kap. 14: The orchestra and Stage in Renaissance Intermedi and early Opera", pp. 210-216, in: Music and culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Harvard U. P., London 1984
- N. Pirrotta: "Kap. 15: Temperaments and Tendencies in the Forentine Camerata", pp. 217-234, in: Music and culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Harvard U. P., London 1984 (485 s)
- N. Pirrotta: "Kap. 16: Monteverdi and the Problems of Opera", pp. 235-253, in: Music and culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Harvard U. P., London 1984
- N. Pirrotta: "Kap. 18: Monteverdi's Poetic Choices", pp. 271-316, in: Music and culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Harvard U. P., London 1984
- Leon Plantinga: "Poetry and Music", pp. 321-353 in: Baker/Russo Hanning (ed.): Musical Humanism and Its Legacy. Essays in Honor of Claude V. Palisca, , NY 1992,
- Maria Rika Maniates: "Foreword/Intoduction", pp. viiin: C. Palisca (ed.) Nicola Vicentino: Ancient Music adapted to Modern Practice. pp. vii-lxiii, Yale/New Haven 1991.
- "The Florentine Camerata": in: C. Palisca (ed.): The Florentine Camerata. Documentary Studies and Translations. Yale 1989, pp. 1-13
- "The Letter [to Vincenzo Galilei] of 8 May 1572 from Girolamo Mei, translation": in: C. Palisca (ed.): The Florentine Camerata. Documentary Studies and Translations. Yale 1989, pp. 56-76
- "G. Bardi: The "Disourse 澳门葡京手机版app下载d to Giulio Caccini, Called the Roman, on Ancient Music and Good Singing, translation": in: C. Palisca (ed.): The Florentine Camerata. Documentary Studies and Translations. Yale 1989, pp. 91-131
- "G. Bardi: The Discourse on how Tragedy should be Performed, translation": in: C. Palisca (ed.): The Florentine Camerata. Documentary Studies and Translations. Yale 1989, pp. 141-151
- C. V. Palisca: "The Artusi-Monteverdi Controversy" in Arnold/Fortune: The New Monteverdi Companion, , pp. 127 - 158
- Margaret Murata: "The Baroque Era: Introduction", in: Oliver Strunk (ed. L. Treitler): Source readings in Music History, Norton, London1998, pp. 511-520
- Pietro de' Bardi: "Letter to Giovanni Battista Doni", in: Oliver Strunk (ed. L. Treitler): Source readings in Music History, Norton, London1998, pp. 523-525
- Giovanni Maria Artusi: "FROM 'Artusi, or, Of the Imperfections of Modern Music'", in: Oliver Strunk (ed. L. Treitler): Source readings in Music History, Norton, London1998, pp. 526-53
- Claudio and Giulio Cesare Monteverdi: "Explanation of the Letter Printed in the Fifth Book of Madrigals", in: Oliver Strunk (ed. L. Treitler): Source readings in Music History, Norton, London1998, pp. 535-543
- Giulio Caccini: "Dedication to 'Euridice'", in: Oliver Strunk (ed. L. Treitler): Source readings in Music History, Norton, London1998, pp. 605-606
- Giulio Caccini: "FROM: Preface to 'Le nuove musiche'", in: Oliver Strunk (ed. L. Treitler): Source readings in Music History, Norton, London1998, pp. 607-616
- Anon: "FROM: 'The Choragus, or, Some Observations for Staging Dramatic Works", in: Oliver Strunk (ed. L. Treitler): Source readings in Music History, Norton, London1998, pp. 629-633
- Jacopo Peri: "Preface to 'The music for Euridice'", in: Oliver Strunk (ed. L. Treitler): Source readings in Music History, Norton, London1998, pp. 659-661
KOMPENDIUM VOL. II:
- N. Pirrotta/E. Povoledo: "Kap. 1: Orpheus, singer of strambotti" pp. 3-36, in: Music and theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi, Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1982
- N. Pirrotta/E. Povoledo: "Kap. 5: 'The wondrous show, alas, of the intermedi!'" pp. 173-236, in: Music and theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi, Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1982
- N. Pirrotta/E. Povoledo: "Kap. 6: Opera and early aria" pp. 237-280, in: Music and theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi, Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1982
- Gary Tomlinson: "Kap. 3: Modes and Plantetary Song: The Musical Alliance to Ethics and Cosmology", in: Music in Renaissance Magic, Chicago Univ. Press, Chicago/London 1993, pp. 67-100
- Gary Tomlinson: "Kap. 4: Ficino's Magical Songs", in: Music in Renaissance Magic, Chicago Univ. Press, Chicago/London 1993, pp. 101-144 (totalt 280 s)
- Gary Tomlinson: "Kap. 5: Musical Posession and Musical Soul Loss", in: Music in Renaissance Magic, Chicago Univ. Press, Chicago/London 1993, pp. 145-188
- Barbara Russo Hanning: "Kap. 1: Rinuccini and the Power of Music", in: Of Poetry and Music's Power, UMI Research Press, Michigan 1980/69, pp. 1-20
- Barbara Russo Hanning: "Kap. 3: The Orfeo Libretti and the Formulation of the New recitative Style", in: Of Poetry and Music's Power, UMI Research Press, Michigan 1980/69, pp. 43-130