Books and scholarly editions
Italian Manuscript Sources of
Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music, Studies in Musicology (Ann
Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980)
Mathias Weckmann: Sacred Concertos,
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era (Madison: A-R Editions,
1984)
Frescobaldi Studies (editor
and contributor), (Durham: Duke University Press, 1987)
Seventeenth-Century Keyboard
Music, gen. ed., 31 vols. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1987-89)
Nicola Vicentino: Four Enharmonic
Madrigals, ed. (Utrecht, Netherlands: Diapason Press, 1990)
Keyboard Music Before 1700, Studies
in Musical Genres and Repertories (editor and contributor), (New
York: Schirmer Books, 1995); 2d revised and expanded edition (New York:
Routledge, 2003).
Articles in scholarly publications
"The First Viol Tutor: Hans
Gerle's Musica Teutsch (1532)," Journal of the Viola
da Gamba Society 6 (1969): 34-48.
"An Unknown Partbook of Early
Sixteenth-Century Polyphony," Studi Musicali 6 (1977):
43-67.
Articles "Ansalone" (with
K. Larson), "Boerio," "Cimino," "Ferrini,"
"Klemm," "Weckmann," in The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians, 6th ed. (London: MacMillan, 1980). Pirated
(unauthorized and unacknowledged) Italian translations of the articles
on Anzalone, Boerio, Cemino and Ferrini appear in the Dizionario
enciclopedico unversale della musica i musicisti, ed. Alberto Basso
(UTET, Torino, 1990), Appendice.
"Imitations of the Colascione
in 17th-Century Keyboard Music," Galpin Society Journal
33 (1980): 92-99.
"The Roman Frescobaldi Tradition:
1640-1670," Journal of the American Musicological Society
33 (1980): 42-8
"Keyboard Music by Corelli's
Colleagues: Roman Composers in English Sources," in Nuovissimi
Studi Corelliani (Florence: Olschki, 1982), 253-267.
"Michelangelo Rossi and His
Toccate e Correnti," Journal of the American Musicological
Society 36 (1983): 18-38.
"Scarlatti Borrowings in Handel's
Grand Concertos," Musical Times 125 (1984): 93-95.
"Tipi tonali nella musica di
Frescobaldi," in Girolamo Frescobaldi: Nel quarto centenario
della nascita, Sergio Durante and Dinko Fabris, eds. (Florence:
Olschki, 1986), 301-314.
"The Autographs of Matthias
Weckmann: A Reevaluation," in Heinrich Schütz und die Musik
in Dänemark zur Zeit Christians IV, Anne Ørbæk Jensen
and Ole Kongsted, eds. (Copenhagen: Engstrøm & Sødring,
1989), 117-45.
Article "Klemm," in The
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Music Printing and Publishing
(New York: Norton, 1990).
"Is the Italian Keyboard Intavolatura
a Tablature?," Recercare 3 (1991), 81-104.
"Music and the Crisis of Seventeenth-Century
Europe," in Music and Science in the Age of Galileo, Victor
Coelho, ed., The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy
of Science, vol. 51 (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1992), 35-44.
"Monteverdi, Schütz, and
Weckmann: the Weight of Tradition," in Proceedings of the Matthias
Weckmann Symposium, Göteborg, 30 August - 3 September 1991,
Sverker Jullander, ed., Skrifter från Musikvetenskapliga avdelningen,
Göteborgs universitet, vol. 31 (Gothenburg, 1993), 123-39.
"Tracing the Contents of Froberger's
Lost Autographs," Current Musicology 54 (1993): 5-23.
"In Defense of Facsimiles,"
Historical Performance 7 (1994): 101-104 <http://www.omifacsimiles.com/silbiger.html>.
"From Madrigal to Toccata: Frescobaldi
and the Seconda Prattica," in Critica Musica: Essays in Honor
of Paul Brainard, John Knowles, ed. (Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach,
1996), 403-28.
"Passacaglia and Ciaccona: Genre
Pairing and Ambiguity from Frescobaldi to Couperin," Journal
of Seventeenth-Century Music, 2 (1996) <http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/jscm/v2/no1/Silbiger.html>.
"Reflections on Froberger's
Libro Primo and Terzo," Froberger, musicien européen,
Domaine musicologique, vol.12 (Klincksieck, 1998), 155
Fourteen
articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
7th ed. (London: MacMillan, 2001), including "Ansalone," "Boerio,"
"Chaconne," "Cimino," "Frescobaldi" (with
F. Hammond), "Klemm," "Musica Ficta: After 1600,"
"Passacaglia," "Weckmann," and (with G. Gerbino)
"Bergamasca," Folia," "Monica," "Passamezzo,"
and "Ruggiero."
"Bach and the Chaconne",
Journal of Musicology 17 (1999): 358-85.
"On Frescobaldi's Recreation
of the Ciaccona and the Passacaglia," in The Keyboard in Baroque
Europe, Christopher Hogwood, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2003), 3-18.
"Fantasy and Craft: The Solo
Instrumentalist," in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century
Music, John Butt and Tim Carter, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005), 426-78.
Foreword to Music and Its Questions:
Essays in Honor of Peter Williams, ed. Thomas Donahue (Organ Historical
Society Press, 2008), 1-6.
See also http://www.duke.edu/~lexsilb/alexander_silbiger.html.