General abbreviations
| anon. | anonymous |
| app. | appendix |
| appr. | approximately |
| ASBN | Archivio Storico del Banco di Napoli |
| ASN | Archivio di Stato di Napoli |
| attr. | attributed |
| b./bb. | bar(s) |
| bibl. | bibliography |
| c. | circa |
| cap. | capitulum |
| cf. | confer |
| ch. | chapter |
| cit. | cited |
| col./cols. | column(s) |
| doc./docs. | document(s) |
| ed., eds. | editor(s)/edited |
| e.g. | exempli gratia |
| esp. | especially |
| et al. | et alia, -i, -ae |
| ex., exs. | example(s) |
| f. | and following |
| facs. | facsimile |
| fasc. | fascicle |
| FHKA | Finanz- und Hofkammerarchiv, Vienna |
| fig., figs. | figure(s) |
| fl. | floruit |
| fol./fols. | folio(s) |
| HHStA | Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Vienna |
| ibid. | ibidem |
| inv. | inventory |
| KHM | Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien |
| lib. | libro/liber |
| m./mm. | measure/measures |
| MS | Manuscript |
| n. | footnote |
| n. a. | not available |
| n. d. | no date |
| no., nos. | number(s) |
| n. p. | no place |
| n. pag. | no pagination |
| n. s. | no signature |
| p./pp. | page(s) |
| pt. | part |
| r. | reign(ed) |
| repr. | reprint/reprinted |
| rev. | revised |
| s.d. | sine dato |
| tab./tabs. | table(s) |
| TLA | Tiroler Landesarchiv, Innsbruck |
| trans. | translated/translation |
| vol./vols. | volume(s) |
Bibliographical abbreviations
| AfMw | Archiv für Musikwissenschaft |
| AMl | Acta musicologica |
| AnM | Anuario musical |
| BJbHM | Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis |
| Brown | Howard Mayer Brown, Instrumental Music Printed Before 1600: A Bibliography (Cambridge MA, 1967) |
| CEKM | Corpus of Early Keyboard Music |
| CMM | Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae |
| CSM | Corpus scriptorum de musica |
| EdM | Das Erbe deutscher Musik |
| EM | Early Music |
| EMH | Early Music History |
| GSJ | The Galpin Society Journal |
| JAMIS | Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society |
| JAMS | Journal of the American Musicological Society |
| JM | Journal of Musicology |
| JMT | Journal of Music Theory |
| JRMA | Journal of the Royal Musical Association |
| MD | Musica Disciplina |
| Mf | Die Musikforschung |
| MfMG | Monatshefte für Musik-Geschichte |
| MGG | Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed. Friedrich Blume, 17 vols. (Kassel, 1949–1986) |
| MGG2 | Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, zweite neubearbeitete Ausgabe, hrsg. von Ludwig Finscher, 29 vols. (Kassel/Stuttgart, 1994–2008) |
| MQ | The Musical Quarterly |
| MusAu | Musicologica Austriaca |
| New Grove | The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition, ed. Stanley Sadie, 20 vols. (London, 1980) |
| New Grove2 | The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition, ed. Stanley Sadie, 29 vols. (London, 2001) |
| NJE | New Josquin Edition |
| NRMI | Nuova rivista musicale italiana |
| oeml | Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online, founded by Rudolf Flotzinger, ed. Barbara Boisits (Vienna, 2002), <http://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/> |
| ÖMZ | Österreichische Musikzeitschrift |
| PPR | Performance Practice Review |
| PRMA | Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association |
| RBM | Revue belge de Musicologie |
| RdM | Revista de musicología |
| RI | Regesta Imperii (http://www.regesta-imperii.de/startseite.html) |
| RIDM | Rivista italiana di musicologia |
| RISM | Répertoire International des Sources Musicales: B/I: Récueils Imprimés XVIe–XVIIe siècles (Munich/Duisburg, 1960) |
| RMI | Rivista Musicale Italiana |
| RMl | Revue de musicologie |
| RRMR | Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance |
| SIMG | Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft |
| StMw | Studien zur Musikwissenschaft |
| TVNM | Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlands Muziekgeschiedenis |
| VD16 | Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (www.vd16.de) |
| VD17 | Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (www.vd17.de) |
| vdm | Verzeichnis deutscher Musikfrühdrucke (www.vdm16.sbg.ac.at) |
| ZfMw | Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft |
| ZGMTH | Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie |
