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Burrows, Donald (2023). Correcting the ‘grossest faults’: Charles Jennens and the Composition of Handel’s Messiah. Music & Letters, 104(4) pp. 533–566.

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Burrows, Donald (2023). King George III and the ‘Smith Collection’ of Handel manuscripts. Early Music, 51(2) pp. 217–233.

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Burrows, Donald (2021). Handel’s singers from the London choirs. Early Music, 49(2) pp. 173–183.

Burrows, Donald (2015). G. F. Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Novello and Company, London.

Burrows, Donald (2014). Handel, the British Court and the London public. In: Marx, H. J. and Sandberger, Wolfberger eds. Göttinger Händel-Beiträge XV. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 109–118.

Burrows, Donald (2014). The Power of Music - the significance of "Alexander's Feast" in Handel's London career. In: ed. Händel-Jahrbuch 2014, 60. Bärenreiter, pp. 243–252.

Burrows, Donald (2012). Handel. New York: Oxford University Press.

Burrows, Donald (2011). HWV301 and all that: the history of Handel’s 'oboe concertos'. Musical Times, 152(1914) pp. 3–6.

Burrows, Donald (2011). G. F. Handel: Te Deum in A Major. Novello and Company, London.

Burrows, Donald (2011). G. F. Handel: Let God arise (Chapel Royal version). Novello and Company, London.

Burrows, Donald (2011). “Sometimes it is impossible to guess why Handel was so scrupulous”: Handel’s versions of the aria ‘Thou art gone up on high’ in "Messiah". In: Hirschmann, Wolfgang ed. Aria. Eine Festschrift für Wolklfgang Ruf. Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft (65). Hildesheim: Georg Olms, pp. 280–307.

Burrows, Donald (2011). Good for the garden: the composition of Handel’s Ariodante. In: Joncus, Berta and Barlow, Jeremy eds. The Stage's Glory: John Rich 1692-1761. Newark / Lanham, MD.: University of Delaware Press / Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 149–156.

Burrows, Donald (2010). Lists of Musicians for Performances of Handel’s Messiah at the Foundling Hospital, 1754-1777. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 43 pp. 85–109.

Burrows, Donald (2010). What we know – and what we don’t know – about Handel’s career in Rome. In: Ehrmann-Herfort, Sabine and Schnettger, Matthias eds. Georg Friedrich Händel in Rom. Analecta Musicologica (44). Barenreiter, pp. 97–108.

Burrows, Donald (2010). Bringing Europe to Britain: Handel’s first decade in London. Händel-Jahrbuch, 56 pp. 65–77.

Burrows, Donald (2009). Didn’t Handel go to Oxford in 1749? Musical Times, 150(1909) pp. 31–38.

Burrows, Donald (2009). Händel: Arienalbum, Frauenrollen für hohe Stimme aus Händels opern. Bärenreiter, Kassel.

Burrows, Donald (2009). G. F. Handel, Ode for St Cecilia's Day - the New Novello Choral edition. Novello & Company.

Burrows, Donald (2009). Who does what, when? On the instrumentation of the basso continuo and the use of the organ in Handel’s English oratorios. In: King, Richard G. ed. Handel Studies: a Gedenkschrift for Howard Serwer. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon, pp. 107–126.

Burrows, Donald (2009). The Royal Music Library and its Handel collection. The Electronic British Library Journal, 2009, article no. 2.

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Burrows, Donald (2009). Die Kastratenrollen in Händels Londoner Opern. In: Jacobshagen, Arnold and Mucke, Panja eds. Handels Opern. Das Handbuch. Das Händel-Handbuch (2). Laaber, pp. 143–163.

Burrows, Donald (2009). A Sacred Oratorio for the Theatre: an Experiment that nearly failed. Händel-Jahrbuch, 55 pp. 135–144.

Burrows, Donald (2008). John Walsh and his Handel editions. In: Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael and Mandelbrote, Giles eds. Music and the Book Trade from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. London: The British Library, pp. 69–104.

Burrows, Donald (2008). Handel and the English Chapel Royal (revised paperback edition). Oxford Studies in British Church Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Burrows, Donald (2008). ‘The composition of three arias in Handel’s Ariodante’. Händel-Jahrbuch, 54 pp. 131–149.

Burrows, D. (2007). Perhaps Handel was right after all: some thoughts on editing 'Ariodante'. The Musical Times, 148(1898) pp. 35–48.

Burrows, Donald (2005). Mr Harris’s Score’: A new look at the ‘Mathews’ manuscript of Handel’s ‘Messiah’. Music & Letters, 86(4) pp. 560–572.

Burrows, Donald (2005). Handel and the English Chapel Royal. Oxford Studies in British Church Music. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Burrows, Donald (2005). An edition with preface of G. F. Handel, Samson. Novello & Co. Ltd., London, UK.

Burrows, Donald (2005). The word-books for Handel's performances of 'Samson'. Musical Times, 146(1890) pp. 7–15.

Burrows, Donald (2005). The Word-Books for Handel's Performances of "Samson". The Musical Times, 146(1890) pp. 7–15.

Burrows, Donald (2004). Musicians and music copyists in mid-eighteenth-century Oxford. In: Wollenberg, Susan and McVeigh, Simon eds. Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 115–140.

Burrows, Donald (2004). Orchestras in the new Cathedral. In: Keene, Derek; Burns, Arthur and Saint, Andrew eds. St Paul’s: The Cathedral Church of London, 604-2004. London: Yale University Press.

Burrows, Donald and Dunhill, Rosemary (2002). Music and theatre in Handel's world : the family papers of James Harris 1732-1780. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Burrows, Donald (2002). An edition with preface of G. F. Handel, Imeneo, HWV 41. Bärenreiter, Kassel, Germany.

Burrows, Donald (1991). Handel's Messiah (Korean edition). Cambridge music handbooks. Seoul: Imprima Korean Agency.

Burrows, Donald James (1981). Handel and the English Chapel Royal during the reigns of Queen Anne and King George I. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis The Open University.

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Burrows, Donald, ed. Canticles and anthems with orchestra. By William Croft . London, Stainer and Bell (2011).

Weber, William and Burrows, Donald (2005). Henry Purcell and The Universal Journal: the building of musical canon in the 1720s. In: Jackson, Jeffrey H and Pelkey, Stanley C eds. Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, pp. 181–199.

Ward Jones, Peter and Burrows, Donald (2003). An Inventory of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Oxford Musical Hands. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle(35) pp. 61–139.