- The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866-1910
- A Most Wondrous Babble: American Art Composers, Their Music, and the American Scene 1950-1985 (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance)
- High-Minded and Low-Down: Music in the Lives of Americans, 1800-1861
- Sweet Songs for Gentle Americans: The Parlor Song in America, 1790-1860
- Art Music in the American Society: The Condition of Art Music in the Late Twentieth Century