Books

• The Music of the English Parish Church. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
• The Romantic Age, 1800–1914 (edited by Temperley). The Athlone History of Music in Britain (Ian Spink, general editor), Vol.5. London: Athlone Press, 1981. (Reissued as The Blackwell History of Music in Britain, Vol.5. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.)
• Fuging Tunes in the Eighteenth Century. With Charles G. Manns. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, No. 49. Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1983.
• The Lost Chord: Essays on Victorian Music (edited by Temperley). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
• Haydn: The Creation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• The Hymn Tune Index. With the assistance of Charles G. Manns and Joseph Herl. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Chapters in Books

•  ‘New Light on the Libretto of The Creation’, in Christopher Hogwood and Richard Luckett, eds., Music in Eighteenth-Century England: Essays in Memory of Charles Cudworth (Cambridge, 1983)
• ‘Chopin: Life and Works’, in Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Early Romantic Masters (London, 1985)
• ‘Musical Nationalism in English Romantic Opera’ in The Lost Chord [above]
• ‘Music in Church’, in Roger Fiske and H. Diack Johnstone, eds., The Eighteenth Century, The Blackwell History of Music in Britain (Ian Spink, general editor), Vol. 4 (Oxford, 1990)
• ‘The Hymn Books of the Foundling and Magdalen Chapels’, in David Hunter, ed., Music Publishing and Collecting: Essays in Honor of Donald W. Krummel (Urbana, IL, 1994)
• ‘Present at the Birth’, in Christopher Turner, ed., The Gallery Tradition: Aspects of Georgian Psalmody. Papers from the International Conference Organised by The Colchester Institute, August 1995. Ketton, 1997.

Articles in Periodicals

• ‘T. A. Walmisley’s Secular Music’ Musical Times 97 (1956), 636–9
• ‘Domestic Music in England, 1800–1860’ Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 85 (1958/9), 31–4
• ‘Beethoven and London Concert Life, 1800–1850’ The Music Review 21 (1960), 207–14
• ‘Handel’s Influence on English Music’ Monthly Musical Record 90 (1960), 163–74
• ‘Functional and Non-Functional Dissonance’ Journal of Music Theory 4 (1960), 233–5
• ‘Testing the Significance of Thematic Relationships’ The Music Review 22 (1961), 177–80
• ‘Mozart’s Influence on English Music’ Music and Letters 42 (1961), 307–18
• ‘Mendelssohn’s Influence on English Music’ Music and Letters 43 (1962), 224–33
• ‘Personal Tempo and Subjective Accentuation’ Journal of General Psychology 68 (1963), 267–87
• ‘George Frederick Pinto, 1785–1806’ The Musical Times 106 (1965), 265–70
• ‘The English Romantic Opera’ Victorian Studies 9 (1966), 293–301
• ‘Tempo and Repeats in the Early Nineteenth Century’ Music and Letters 47 (1966),323–36
• ‘Berlioz and the Slur’Music and Letters 50 (1969), 388–92
• ‘The ‘Symphonie fantastique’ and its Program’ The Musical Quarterly 57 (1971), 593–608
• ‘Kindred and Affinity in Hymn Tunes’ The Musical Times 113 (1972), 905–9
• ‘John Playford and the Metrical Psalms’ Journal of the American Musicological Society 25 (1972), 331–78
• ‘John Playford and the Stationers’ Company’ Music and Letters 54 (1973), 203–12
• R. P. Jerrard and Nicholas Temperley, ‘Almost Perfect Numbers’ Mathematics Magazine 46 (1973), 84–7
• ‘Henry Hugo Pierson, 1815–73’ The Musical Times 114 (1973), 1217–20; 115 (1974), 30–4
• ‘Scorography: The Music of Chopin’ Musical Newsletter 4 (1974), 11–14
• ‘John Field and the First Nocturne’ Music and Letters 56 (1975), 335–40
• ‘Sterndale Bennett and the Lied’ The Musical Times 116 (1975), 958–61, 1060–3
• ‘Middleburg Psalms’ Studies in Bibliography 30 (1977), 162–7
• ‘The Anglican Communion Hymn’ The Hymn 30 (1979), 7–15, 93–101, 178–85, 243–51
• ‘Organs in English Parish Churches, 1660–1830’ The Organ Yearbook 10 (1979), 83–100
• ‘Organ Settings of English Psalm Tunes’ The Musical Times 112 (1981), 123–8
• ‘Schubert and Beethoven’s Eight-Six Chord’ Nineteenth-Century Music 5 (1981/2), 142–54
• ‘The Old Way of Singing: Its Origins and Development’ Journal of the American Musicological Society 34 (1981), 511–44
• ‘Organ Music in Parish Churches, 1660–1730’ British Institute of Organ Studies, BIOS Organ Journal 5 (1982), 33–45
• ‘The Origin of the Fuging Tune’ Royal Musical Association, RMA Research Chronicle 17 (1981 [1982]), 1–32
• ‘The Limits of Authenticity’ Early Music 12 (1984), 16–20
• ‘The Lost Chord’ Victorian Studies 30 (1986), 7–23
• ‘Enigma: The Composer’s Solution’ The Musical Times 129 (1988), 455–7
• ‘Schumann and Sterndale Bennett’ Nineteenth-Century Music 12 (1988/9), 207–20
• ‘The Great Divide: Channel or Ocean?’ American Music 8 (1990), 1–11
• ‘Haydn’s Tempos in The Creation’ Early Music 19 (1991), 235–45
• ‘The Lock Hospital and Its Music’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 118 (1993), 44–72
• ‘The Problem of Definitive Identification in the Indexing of Hymn Tunes’, Music Reference Services Quarterly 2 (1993), 227–39
• ‘First Forty: The Earliest American Compositions’, American Music 15 (1997), 1–25

Articles in Encyclopedias

• ‘London: VI. Das 19. Jahrhundert’, ‘Symphonie: V. England und USA’ in Friedrich Blume, ed., Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Kassel, 1959–65)
• ‘Tuning and Temperament’ in Warren Preece, ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. (Chicago, 1974)
• ‘Bach Revival’, ‘Bennett, William Sterndale’, ‘Birmingham’, ‘Chopin’ §§7-13, ‘Field, John’, ‘Hymn: IV. Protestant’, ‘Overture’, ‘Psalmody: I. England’, ‘Psalms, Metrical: II. England, IV. America’, ‘Symphony: II. 19th Century’, ‘Wesley Family’, and 86 other articles in Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London, 1980)
• ‘Music’, ‘Opera’, ‘Songs’ and 15 other articles in Sally Mitchell, ed., Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (New York and London, 1988)
• ‘Great Britain’ in Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London, 1992)

Editions of Music

• Edward James Loder, Raymond and Agnes, opera in 3 acts (vocal score). Cambridge: [Clare College], 1966.
• Anthems for Men’s Voices. Peter le Huray, Nicholas Temperley, Peter Tranchell and David Willcocks, eds. 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
• Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Op.14. (New Berlioz Edition, 16.) Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1972.
• English Songs 1800–1860. Geoffrey Bush and Nicholas Temperley, eds. (Musica Britannica, 43.) London: Stainer & Bell, 1977.
• The London Pianoforte School, 1766–1860. 20 vols. New York and London: Garland, 1984–7.
• Tommaso Giordani, Three Quintets for Keyboard and Strings. (Recent Researches in Eighteenth-Century Music, 25.) Madison, Wisconsin: A–R Editions, 1987.
• Franz Joseph Haydn, The Creation. New English edition. London: Peters, 1988.
• Edward James Loder, Sonata for Flute and Piano in E Flat Major. Edited and completed by Nicholas Temperley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
• Completion of Mozart’s opera L’Oca del Cairo, Act I, performed 1991; unpublished.