Books
- Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals. 2006 .
- Louis Armstrong's New Orleans. W. W. Norton, 2006 . (paperback edition due March 2007. This book has been reviewed many places, including the New York Times Book Review and The New Orleans Times-Picayune.)
- Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words. Oxford University Press, 1999 . (This book has been reviewed in many places, including The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic. Paperback edition published in March 2001)
- Chromatic Beauty in the Late-Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Chromatic Beauty in the Late-Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals. Cambridge University Press, 1997 . (An electronic edition of this book was released by Cambridge University Press (through the netLibrary service at www.netLibrary.com) in 2002, a paperback edition in 2006. This book has been reviewed in Notes (1999); Music and Letters 80 (1999): 274-281; Journal of the Royal Musical Association (1999); Speculum (1999); and in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (1998).)
Articles
- "Flats and Chansons in MS Florence, B.N., P. 26." MS Chantilly 564 (2007).
- T. Brothers. "“New Orleans and the African Musical Diaspora,”." (2007). [author's comments]
- "“Who’s On First, What’s Second, and Where Did They Come From?: The Social-Musical Textures of Early Jazz”." Annual Review of Jazz Studies (2006).
- "Louis Armstrong, the 'Saints' and the 'Boys'." Musica Oggi 21 (2001): 5-21.
- "Music." Lives and Legacies: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World (2001). Introduction
- "Accidents in Binchois's Songs." Binchois Studies (2000): 251-275.
- "Ideology and Aurality in the Vernacular Traditions of African-American Music." Black Music Research Journal (1997): 169-209.
- "Contenance Angloise and Accidentals in Some Motets by Du Fay." Plainsong and Medieval Music .6 (1997): 21-51.
- "Musica Ficta and Harmony in Machaut's Songs." Journal of Musicology .15 (1997): 501-528.
- "Sharps in Medee Fu: Questions of Style and Analysis." Studi Musicali .24 (1995): 3-25.
- "Solo and Cycle in African-American Jazz." The Musical Quarterly 78 (1994): 479-509.
- "Vestiges of the Isorhythmic Tradition in Masses and Motets, ca. 1450-1475." Journal of the American Musicological Society 44 (1991): 1-56.
- "Two Chansons Rustiques a 4 by Claudin de Sermisy and Clement Janequin." Journal of the American Musicological Society 34 (1981): 305-324.
Reviews
- All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong by Jos Willems. ASRC Journal (forthcoming).
- T. Brothers, Review of Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band by Lawrence Gushee. Journal of the American Musicological Society fall 2006 (2007): 747-754.
- Lawrence Gushee, Pioneers of Jazz: The Creole Band. Journal of the American Musicological Society (2006).
- Scott DeVeaux, The Birth of Behop. Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books (Spring, 1999): 16-17.
- Sylvia Huot, Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony. Music and Letters 79 (1998): 584-585.
- Laurence Bergreen, Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life. American Music 16 (1998): 234-236.
- Yasuhiro Fujioka et al, John Coltrane: A Discography and Musical Biography. Fontes Artis Musicae 43 (1996): 305-6. (Also "Duke Ellington: Day by Day and "Film by Film" by Klaus Strateman; and "Sarah Vaughn: A Discography" by Denis Brown)
- Rob C. Wegman, Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht. Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 652-3.
- Anna Marie Busse Berger, Mensuration and Proportion Signs:Origins of Evolution. Renaissance Quarterly 48 (1995): 674-5.