| 2° | folio |
| 4° [etc.] | quarto [etc.] |
| A | A major |
| a | published in North America |
| a | A minor |
| ackd. | acknowledged |
| adv. | advertised (in) |
| advt. | advertisement |
| advts. | advertisements |
| ATB | alto, tenor, and bass |
| attr. | attributed (to) |
| attn. | attribution |
| attns. | attributions |
| B | B major |
| b | unfigured instrumental bass |
| b | B minor |
| Benton | I. Benton, Ignace Pleyel: A Thematic Catalogu (New York, 1977) |
| BLC | British Library, Catalogue of Printed Books |
| BUC | British Union-Catalogue of Early Music |
| Bunting | E. Bunting, Ancient Irish Music, vol. I (London, [1796]) |
| C | Britton, Lowens, and Crawford, American Sacred Music Imprints (Worcester, Mass., 1991) |
| C | C major |
| C | microcard of source |
| c | C minor |
| c. | circa (= approximately) |
| cat. | catalogue |
| cats. | catalogues |
| Clark | K. C. Clark, ‘Bibliography of Handbooks and Companions to Hymnals’, The Hymn, 30-31 |
| Coll. | Collection |
| comp. | compiler, compiled (by) |
| comps. | compilers |
| Cowan | W. Cowan, ‘Bibliography of the Book of Common Order’, Edinburgh Bibl. Soc.Papers, 10 (1913), 71–98 |
| CPM | British Library, Catalogue of Printed Music |
| Craw | H.A. Craw, ‘Works of J. L. Dussek’, Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 1964 |
| D | D major |
| D | down one octave (see p. 99) |
| d | D minor |
| d. | penny, pence |
| DAH | Dictionary of American Hymnology |
| Dawe | D. Dawe, Organists of the City of London (n.p., 1983) |
| DKL | Das deutsche Kirchenlied: Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Melodien |
| E | E. Evans, American Bibliography |
| E | E major |
| e | published in England or Wales |
| e | E minor |
| ECSTC | Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue |
| ed. | editor, edition, edited (by) |
| eds. | editors, editions |
| ent. Sta. Hall | entered at Stationers’ Hall |
| ex. | example |
| F | F major |
| F | microfilm of source |
| f | figured bass |
| f | F minor |
| f. | leaf, highest-numbered leaf |
| ff. | leaves |
| fl. | floruit (= was active) |
| Foster | J. Foster, Index Ecclesiasticus, 1800–40 (Oxford, 1890) |
| Frost | M. Frost, English & Scottish Psalm & Hymn Tunes (London, 1953) |
| G | G major |
| G | glossy photographic prints of source |
| g | guitar part |
| g | G minor |
| Giazotto | R. Giazotto, Viotti (Milan, 1954): Thematic Catalogue, pp. 289–368 |
| Gregor | C. Gregor, Choral-Buch (Leipzig, 1784, repr. London & Toronto, 1984) |
| h | harpsichord part (fully written out) |
| h | in the Hymn Tune Index office |
| Hansell | S. Hansell, Works for Solo Voice of J. A. Hasse (Detroit, 1968) |
| HEKG | Handbuch zum Evangelischen Kirchengesangbuch, III/1–2 (Göttingen, 1970, 1990) |
| Hob. | A. van Hoboken, Joseph Haydn: Werkverzeichnis, 3 vol. (Mainz, 1957–78) |
| HTI | Hymn Tune Index |
| HWV | W. and M. Eisen, Händel-Handbuch, 4 vols. (Kassel, 1974–86) |
| i | instrumental part(s) (non-keyboard) |
| i | published in Ireland |
| IGI | International Genealogical Index (database) |
| Julian | J. Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology. 2nd ed. (London, 1907). |
| jun. | junior |
| K. | L. von Köchel, Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke W. A. Mozarts. 6th ed. (Wiesbaden, 1964) |
| k | keyboard part (fully written out) |
| Leaver | R. Leaver, ‘Goostly Psalmes’ (Oxford, 1991) |
| Love | J. Love, Scottish Church Music (Edinburgh, 1897) |
| Lowens | I. Lowens, ‘The Easy Instructor’, in Lowens, Music and Musicians in Early America (New York, 1929) |
| m | in the University of Illinois Music Library |
| Marx | Marx, Überliefung der Werke Corellis |
| MS. | manuscript |
| MSS. | manuscripts |
| n. | footnote |
| n.p. | no publisher or place of publication stated |
| New Grove | New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London, 1980) |
| NTI | K. van Winkle Keller and C. Rabson, The National Tune Index (microfiche, New York, 1980) |
| NUC | National Union Catalog: Pre-1956 Imprints (London and Chicago, 1968–81) |
| O | original copy of source |
| o | organ part (fully written out) |
| o | published in a region other than the British Isles and North America |
| OCLC | Online Computer Library Center (database) |
| Op. | Opus |
| p | piano part (fully written out) |
| p. | page, highest-numbered page |
| Patrick | M. Patrick, Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody (London, 1949) |
| Paymer | M. E. Paymer, Pergolesi: Thematic Catalogue (New York, 1977) |
| Pidoux | P. Pidoux, Le Psautier huguenot, 2 vols. (Basle, 1962) |
| pp. | pages |
| Ps. | Psalm(s) |
| Pt. | Part |
| Pts. | Parts |
| pub. | publisher, published (by) |
| R | facsimile reprint edition of source |
| r | recto (= on the front side of a leaf) |
| r | in the Rare Book Room, University of Illinois |
| Repository | Ackermann, The Repository of Arts |
| Rev. | The Reverend |
| rev. | revised |
| RISM | Répertoire international des sources musicales |
| RLIN | Research Libraries Information Network (database) |
| Rogers | K. Rogers, An Index to Frost’s ‘English & Scottish Psalm Tunes’ (Ann Arbor, 1967) |
| s | published in Scotland |
| s | in the Main Library stacks, University of Illinois |
| s. | shilling(s) |
| SATB | soprano, alto, tenor, and bass |
| sc. | scilicet(= or rather) |
| sen. | senior |
| Shaw | W. Shaw, The Succession of Organists (Oxford, 1991) |
| Shoemaker | R. H. Shoemaker, Checklist of American Imprints for 1820 (Metuchen, N.J., 1964) |
| Smith | W. C. Smith, Bibliography of John Walsh, 1695–1720 (London, 1948) |
| Smith & Humphries | W. C. Smith & C. Humphries, Bibliography of John Walsh, 1721–1766 (London, 1968) |
| Sonneck/Upton | O. Sonneck, rev. Upton, Bibliography of Early Secular American Music |
| SS | R. R. Shaw & R. H. Shoemaker, American Bibliography 1801–1819 (New York and Metuchen, N. J., 1958–63) |
| Stäblein | B. Stäblein, Hymnen I (Monumenta monodica medii aevi, 1) (Kassel, 1956) |
| STC | Short-Title Catalogue, 1475–1640, 2nd edn. (London, 1986, 1976, 1991) |
| T | N. Temperley, The Music of the English Parish Church (Cambridge, 1979) |
| t | in the personal library of Nicholas Temperley |
| TB | tenor and bass |
| trans. | translated (by) |
| U | key undetermined, major mode |
| u | down one octave (see p. 99) |
| u | key undetermined, minor mode |
| uniden. | unidentified |
| v | verso (= on the reverse side of a leaf) |
| Venn | J. & J. A. Venn,Alumni Cantabrigienses (Cambridge, 1922, 1940) |
| vol. | volume |
| vols. | volumes |
| Weinmann | A. Weinmann, Themen-Verzeichnis J. B. Wanhal, 2 vols. (Vienna, 1897) |
| Wing | D. Wing, Short-Title Catalogue, 1641–1700, 2nd ed. (New York, 1972–88) |
| Wolfe | R. J. Wolfe, Secular Music in America (New York, 1964) |
| WoO | ‘Werk ohne Opuszahl’ in G. Kinsky, rev. H. Halm, Das Werk Beethovens (Munich, 1955) |
| X | xerographic photocopy of source |
| x | [tune] migrates from one voice part to another |
| Zahn | J. Zahn, Die Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder, 6 vols. (Gütersloh, 1888–93) |
| Zimmerman | F. B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: Analytical Catalogue (London, 1963) |
