Bibliografia de referencia sobre el período

 . Friederich Blume: Renaissance and baroque music: a comprehensive survey (New York: Faber and Faber, 1969; original alemán de 1968).
- George J. Buelow (ed.): The late Baroque era: from 1680s to 1740, Man and Music, vol. 4 (Londres: Macmillan, 1993)
- Manfred Bukofzer: La música en la época barroca: de Monteverdi a Bach (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1986 y 1998, original de 1947)
- Tim Carter: Music in late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy (Londres: Batsford 1992).
- Tim Carter y John Butt (Eds.) The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
- Philip G. Downs: La música clásica (Madrid: Akal, 1998).
- John Walter Hill: La música barroca. (Madrid: Akal, 2008; original 2005)
- Claude Palisca: La música del barroco (Buenos Aires: Victor Lerú, 1983; original de 1968).
- Nino Pirrota: Music and Culture in Italy from de Middle Ages to the Baroque (Cambridge: Massachusetts, 1984).
- Curtis Price (ed.): The Early Baroque Era: From the late 16th century to th 1660s, Man and Music, vol. 3 (Londres: Macmillan, 1993).