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

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

Burrows, Donald (2005). Handel and the English Chapel Royal. Oxford Studies in British Church Music. Oxford, UK: Oxford 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 (1991). Handel's Messiah (Korean edition). Cambridge music handbooks. Seoul: Imprima Korean Agency.

Burrows, Donald; Coffey, Helen; Greenacombe, John and Hicks, Anthony eds. (2020). George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents, Volume 4. 1742-1750. Cambridge University Press.

Burrows, Donald; Coffey, Helen; Greenacombe, John and Hicks, Anthony eds. (2018). George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents. Volume 3. 1734–1742. Cambridge University Press.

Burrows, Donald; Coffey, Helen; Greenacombe, John and Hicks, Anthony eds. (2015). George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents: Volume 2: 1725-1734. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Burrows, Donald; Coffey, Helen; Greenacombe, John and Hicks, Anthony eds. (2013). George Frideric Handel: collected documents: volume 1 1609-1725. Cambridge University Press.

Burrows, Donald ed. (2009). Handel's Will: Facsimiles and Commentary. London: Gerald Coke Handel Foundation.

Burrows, Donald ed. (2009). Georg Friedrich Händel, ‘Messiah’. Documenta Musicologica, Zweite Reihe, Handschriften, xl. Kassel, Germany: Barenreiter.

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 (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). 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 (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). 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 (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.

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.

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

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

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

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). 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.

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.

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).

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

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

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

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

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

Burrows, Donald (2005). An edition with preface of G. F. Handel, Samson. In: Burrows, Donald ed. Not Set

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