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• The Sociology of the Church: Essays in Reconstruction (Tyler, TX: Geneva Ministries, c1986), by James B. Jordan (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• The Mosaic Tabernacle, in its Arrangement and Worship, as the Symbol of the Christian Church (New York: J. Moffet, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Interpretation of Friends Worship (Philadelphia: Committee on Religious Education of Friends General Conference, c1947), by Jean Toomer (Gutenberg text)

• Die Liturgie als Mysterienfeier (Ecclesia Orans v9, in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder und Co., 1923), by Odo Casel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described (second edition, new impression; London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1920), by Adrian Fortescue, contrib. by Cardinal Bourne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium), Solemnly Promulgated by His Holiness Pope Paul VI, on December 4, 1963, by Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) (HTML at the Vatican)
• Candles in the Roman Rite (third edition; Baltimore: A. Gross Candle Co., 1937), by Edwin Ryan, illust. by James R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Holy Week Book, Compiled by Authority From the Roman Missal and Breviary, As Reformed by Order of Pope Pius X (pointed edition, with Mass texts in Latin and English; London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, ca. 1913), by Catholic Church, contrib. by Adrian Fortescue
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some page corners obscured
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only and some page corners obscured
• Liturgica Historica: Papers on the Liturgy and Religious Life of the Western Church (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1918), by Edmund Bishop
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Church (fifteenth edition, c1879), by John O'Brien (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Calendar of St. Willibrord, from Ms. Paris Lat. 10837: A Facsimile, With Transcription, Introduction, and Notes (calendar in Latin, commentary in English; Henry Bradshaw Society publication series v55; London: Harrison and Sons, 1918), ed. by H. A. Wilson, contrib. by Saint Willibrord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Officia Propria Ditionis Columbianae Juxta Kalendarium a S.R.C. Revisum et Adprobatum Die 6 Februarii 1914 (4 parts in 1 volume, in Latin; Turin: P. Marietti, 1914), by Catholic Church
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages: Essays in the Origin and Early History of Modern Drama (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Saint Edmund Campion Children's Missal (electronic edition of "Know Your Mass"; c1954), by Demetrius Manousos, illust. by Addison Burbank (PDF at ccwatershed.org)

• Worship (partial serial archives)
• Orate Fratres (full serial archives)
• Ephemerides Liturgicae (partial serial archives)

• The Gelasian Sacramentary: Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae (in Latin with English notes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1894), by Catholic Church, ed. by H. A. Wilson
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Chapel Choir Book: A Collection of Catholic Music, Consisting of Masses, Anthems, Chants, and Hymns, To Which is Prefixed a Short Treatise on the Art of Singing (Boston: P. Donahoe, c1850), ed. by George W. Lloyd
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Oficio Parvo de Nuestra Señora la Santisima Virgen Maria, Segun el Breviario Romano (translated into Spanish; Madrid: P. Marin, 1787), by Catholic Church, trans. by Josef Rigual (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Fragments From Latin Medieval Service-Books: With Two Coloured Facsimiles From Medieval Prymers (EETS extra series #90; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1903), ed. by Henry Littlehales
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Spirit of the Liturgy (c1935), by Romano Guardini, trans. by Ada Lane (HTML at EWTN)

• A Textbook of Plainsong and Gregorian Music (London: Vincent Music Co., ca. 1906), by Francis Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Work of the Benedictines of Solesmes in the Plainsong Revival (London: Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 1899), by H. B. Briggs (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Das Graduale Junta 1611: Ein Beitrag zur Choral-geschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts (dissertation in German; Fribourg, Switzerland: St. Paulus Druckerei, 1909), by C. H. Leineweber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great Musicians (London: E. Grant Richards, 1908), by Ernest Oldmeadow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Studies in Hymnology: A Textbook Designed for Study Groups Where Attention is Given to the Subject of Church Music; Also for Colleges, Schools, the Music Teacher and All Inquiring Students (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, c1938), by Mrs. Crosby Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rural Harmony: Being an Original Composition in Three and Four Parts, for the Use of Singing Schools and Musical Societies (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Jacob Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by George Corbett (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Christopher A. Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
• Zur Spätmittelalterlichen Choralgeschichte St. Gallens: Der Cod. 546 der St. Galler Stiftsbibliothek (in German; St. Gallen: Buchdruckerei Ostschweiz, 1908), by Otto Marxer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Chapel Choir Book: A Collection of Catholic Music, Consisting of Masses, Anthems, Chants, and Hymns, To Which is Prefixed a Short Treatise on the Art of Singing (Boston: P. Donahoe, c1850), ed. by George W. Lloyd
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Singing Disciples: Toward Better Church Music, by Hugh C. Benner (PDF at nnu.edu)

• The Hymn (partial serial archives)
• The Diapason (partial serial archives)

• The Hymnody of the Christian Church (c1927), by Louis F. Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Hymnal 1940 Companion (third revised edition; New York: Church Pension Fund, 1956), by Episcopal Church Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of the Hymns and Tunes (1906), by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Studies in Hymnology: A Textbook Designed for Study Groups Where Attention is Given to the Subject of Church Music; Also for Colleges, Schools, the Music Teacher and All Inquiring Students (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, c1938), by Mrs. Crosby Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• When the Sun Moves Northward: Being a Treatise on the Six Sacred Months, Containing the Mystic Ritual from the "Story of the Year", and the Teaching Concerning the Resurrecton From "Green Leaves" (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Press, ca. 1923), by Mabel Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Festival of the Dead (reprinted as New Materials for the History of Man #1; Toronto: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1920), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pilgerreise der Aetheria (oder Silvia) von Aquitanien nach Jerusalem und den Heiligen Stätten (vom Jahre 385 n. Chr.) (translated into German, with notes; Essen: G.o D. Baedeker, 1919), by Egeria, ed. by Hermann Richter, contrib. by Gian Francesco Gamurrini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
• The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Early History of the Liturgy (Cambridge: At the university press, 1913), by J. H. Srawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mass of the Western Rites, by Fernand Cabrol (HTML at EWTN)
• A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Church (fifteenth edition, c1879), by John O'Brien (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Book of Worship: For the Congregation and the Home, by Boston Church of the Disciples (page images at MOA)

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