Books
- K. McCarthy. In Other Words: Renaissance Musical Contrafacta. Book in progress .
- K. McCarthy. Liturgy and Contemplation in Byrd's Gradualia. New York: Routledge, 2007 .
Articles
- K. McCarthy. "Byrd's patrons at prayer." Music and Letters 89.1 (February 2008).
- K. McCarthy. ""Brought to speake English with the rest": Byrd's motet contrafacta." Musical Times 148.3 (September, 2007).
- K. McCarthy. "Tallis, Isidore of Seville, and Suscipe quaeso." Early Music 35.3 (August 2007): 447-50.
- K. McCarthy. "Tallis, Thomas." MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) Personenteil vol. 16 (2007): §457–70.
- K. McCarthy. "A Motet for Lovers of Music." Sacred Music 133.1 (2006): 21-24.
- K. McCarthy. "Fit to Print: Controversy and Editorial Control in the Publications of William Byrd." Ex Libris (Associates of the Stanford University Libraries) 13 (Summer 2005): 6-10.
- K. McCarthy. "Parsley, Osbert." MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) Personenteil vol. 13 (2005): §143-44.
- K. McCarthy. "Pygott, Richard." MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) Personenteil vol. 13 (2005): §1087-88.
- K. McCarthy. "Byrd, Augustine, and Tribue Domine." Early Music 32.4 (November 2004).
- K. McCarthy. "William Mundy’s Vox patris caelestis and the Assumption of the Virgin." Music and Letters 85.3 (August 2004): 353-367.
- K. McCarthy. "'Notes as a garland’: chronology and narrative of Byrd’s Gradualia." Early Music History 24 (2004): 49-84.
- K. McCarthy. "Music for all seasons: the Byrd Gradualia revisited." Sacred Music 129.1 (Spring 2002).
Papers
- K. McCarthy. Byrd and the politics of exile. July 2007 . (King's College London)
- K.McCarthy. Genre outlaws: Renaissance musical contrafacta and their makers. October 2007 . (Renaissance Seminar, Wesleyan University)
- K. McCarthy. The personal and the political in Byrd. March 2006 . (All Souls' College, Oxford)
- K. McCarthy. "Brought to speake English with the rest": Byrd's motet contrafacta. July 2006 . (Annual Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Music, Cambridge)
- K. McCarthy. Byrd's patrons at prayer. October 2006 . (Institute of Advanced Musical Studies, King's College, London; Trinity College, Dublin)
- K. McCarthy. "Rose garlands and gunpowder: Byrd's musical world in 1605". August 2005 . (invited lecture, Reed College)
- K. McCarthy. "Collaborative voice in the Tallis-Byrd Cantiones". 2005 . (Conference paper; read at Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Washington, DC, October 2005; Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, Tours, France, July 2005)
- K. McCarthy. Fit to Print: controversy and editorial control in Byrd’s Latin publications. May 2004 . (Invited Lecture (Stanford University))
- K. McCarthy. William Mundy’s Vox patris caelestis and the Assumption of the Virgin. December 2003 . (Invited Lecture, Joint Symposium, Departments of Music and History, Reed College)
- K. McCarthy. In atriis tuis Jerusalem: English recusant constructions of sacred time and space. November 2003 . (Invited Lecture, Symposium on Music in Sacred Space, Wesleyan University)
- K. McCarthy. ‘Notes as a garland’: chronology and narrative of Byrd’s Gradualia. 2003 . (Presented at National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Houston, TX, November 2003 and 29th Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Jena, Germany, August 2003)
Reviews
- K. McCarthy, Review of Philip Brett, William Byrd and his Contemporaries: Essays and a Monograph. NOTES: Journal of the Music Library Association 64:1 (2007): 63-66.
- K. McCarthy, Review of Byrd Edition vol. 13, Songs of Sundrie Natures (ed. David Mateer). NOTES: Journal of the Music Library Association 62:4 (March, 2006): 1049-52.
- K. McCarthy, Review of Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Ignace Bossuyt). Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 37:1 (2006): 78-81.
- K. McCarthy, Review of Bach Studies from Dublin (eds. A. Leahy and Y. Tomita). BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 36:1 (2005): 97-100.
- K. McCarthy, Review of Music in Medieval Manuscripts (Nicolas Bell). Medieval Review (January 2003).
- K. McCarthy, Review of The Advent Project (James McKinnon). Medieval Review (June 2001).
- K. McCarthy, “Tallis’ Suscipe quaeso”. Early Music (May 2000). (Correspondence to journal)