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Herbert, Trevor and Barlow, Helen (2013). Music and the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press.

Herbert, Trevor (2012). Music in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing about music. London: ABRSM Publishing.

Herbert, Trevor (2012). Music in words: a guide to researching and writing about music (2nd edition). London: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Herbert, Trevor (2009). Music in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing about Music. UK: Oxford University Press.

Herbert, Trevor (2006). The Trombone. Yale Musical Instrument Series. Yale University Press.

Herbert, Trevor and Myers, Arnold (1990). Catalogue of the European Wind and Percussion Instruments in the Cyfarthfa Castle Museum Collection. Merthyr Tydfil: Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery.

Herbert, Trevor; Clarke, Martin V. and Barlow, Helen eds. (2022). A History of Welsh Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Herbert, Trevor; Myers, Arnold and Wallace, John eds. (2018). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Clayton, Martin; Herbert, Trevor and Middleton, Richard eds. (2011). The Cultural Study of Music: a Critical Introduction (2nd ed.). Abingdon: Routledge.

Clayton, Martin; Herbert, Trevor and Middleton, Richard eds. (2003). The Cultural study of music: A critical introduction. Abingdon, UK,: Routledge.

Herbert, Trevor and Stead, Peter eds. (2001). Hymns and Arias: Great Welsh Voices. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Herbert, Trevor ed. (2000). The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Herbert, Trevor and Wallace, John eds. (1997). The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Herbert, Trevor and Jones, Gareth Elwyn eds. (1995). Post-War Wales. Welsh History and its Sources. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Herbert, Trevor ed. (1991). Bands: the Brass Band Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Popular Music in Britain. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Herbert, Trevor and Jones, Gareth Elwyn eds. (1988). Tudor Wales. Welsh History and its Sources. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Herbert, Trevor and Jones, Gareth Elwyn eds. (1988). Wales 1880-1914. Welsh History adnd its Sources. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Herbert, Trevor and Jones, Gareth Elwyn eds. (1988). People and Protest: Wales 1815-1880. Welsh History and its Sources. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Herbert, Trevor and Jones, Gareth Elwyn eds. (1988). Wales Between the Wars. Welsh History and its Sources. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Herbert, Trevor and Jones, Gareth Elwyn eds. (1988). The Remaking of Wales in the Eighteenth Century. Welsh History and its Sources. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Herbert, Trevor and Jones, Gareth Elwyn eds. (1988). Edward I and Wales. Welsh History and its Sources. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Herbert, Trevor (2023). Military Musical Instruments and the Culture of Perfection in the Long 19th Century. In: Cottrell, Stephen ed. Shaping Sound and Society: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 230–248.

Herbert, Trevor (2018). Cornett. In: Lawson, Colin and Stowell, Robin eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 151–152.

Herbert, Trevor (2018). Military music. In: Lawson, Colin and Stowell, Robin eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 409–411.

Herbert, Trevor (2018). Musica Reservata. In: Lawson, Colin and Stowell, Robin eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 427.

Herbert, Trevor (2018). Serpent. In: Lawson, Colin and Stowell, Robin eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 572–573.

Herbert, Trevor (2018). Trombone. In: Lawson, Colin and Stowell, Robin eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 630–632.

Herbert, Trevor (2018). Tuba and ophicleide. In: Lawson, Colin and Stowell, Robin eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 636–638.

Herbert, Trevor (2018). Foreword: amateur bands, their localities, and their challenges – the lessons of history. In: Reily, Suzel A. and Brucher, Katherine eds. The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking. Routledge Music Companions. Abingdon: Routledge, xv-xxv.

Herbert, T. (2016). Carl Florian Mandel and the production, consumption and status of "military" brass-wind instruments in the nineteenth century. In: Libin, L. ed. Instrumental Odyssey: A Tribute to Herbert Heyde. Bucina: The Historic Brass Society Series (9). New York: Pendragon Press.

Herbert, Trevor (2013). Brass and military bands in Britain - performance domains, the factors that construct them and their influence. In: Brucher, Kate and Reily, Suzel eds. Brass Bands of the World: Bands: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making. SOAS Musicology Series. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 33–54.

Herbert, T. and Barlow, H. (2012). The British military as a musical institution, c.1780-c.1860. In: Rodmell, P. ed. Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, pp. 247–266.

Herbert, Trevor (2011). Social history and music history. In: Clayton, Martin; Herbert, Trevor and Middleton, Richard eds. The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction (2nd ed). Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 49–58.

Herbert, Trevor (2009). Trombone idiom in the twentieth century: classical, jazz, and hybrid influences. In: Weiner, Howard T. ed. Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and Other Popular Traditions. Studies in Jazz. Lanham, MD, USA: Scarecrow Press.

Herbert, Trevor (2009). Introduction: Brass playing in the early twentieth century: idioms and cultures of performance. In: Weiner, Howard T. ed. Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and Other Popular Traditions. Studies in Jazz (58). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, xi-xvii.

Herbert, Trevor (2005). Matthew Locke and the cornett and sackbut ensemble in England after the Restoration: the 'labelled evidence'. In: Polk, Keith ed. Brass Music at the Cross Roads of Europe: The Low Countries and Contexts of Brass Musicians from the Renaissance into the Nineteenth Century. Utrecht, Netherlands: STIMU, pp. 57–67.

Herbert, Trevor (2005). Susato's colleagues: the trombonists of the Tudor court. In: Polk, Keith ed. Tielman Susato and the music of his time: print culture, compositional technique and instrumental music in the Renaissance. Bucina: The Historic Brass Society Series (5). Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, pp. 117–132.

Herbert, Trevor (2000). Nineteenth-century bands: making a movement. In: Herbert, Trevor ed. The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 10–67.

Herbert, Trevor (2000). God's perfect minstrels: the bands of the Salvation Army. In: Herbert, Trevor ed. The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 187–216.

Herbert, Trevor and Wallace, John (2000). Aspects of performance practices: the brass band and its influence on other brass-playing styles. In: Herbert, Trevor ed. The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 278–305.

Herbert, Trevor (2000). Introduction. In: Herbert, Trevor ed. The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1–9.

Herbert, Trevor (2000). Popular nationalism: Griffith Rhys Jones (‘Caradog’) and the Welsh choral tradition. In: Bashford, Christina and Langley, Leanne eds. Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 255–274.

Herbert, Trevor (2000). Trombones and the English court, c. 1480-c.1680. In: Lustig, Monika and Weiner, Howard T. eds. Posaunen und Trompeten: Geschichte, Akustik, Spieltechnik: 19. Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium in Michaelstein, 20. bis 22. November 1998. Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte (60). Blankenburg: Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein, pp. 31–38.

Herbert, Trevor (1999). Volunteers, salvationists and committees: consensus versus regulation in amateur Victorian brass bands. In: Chastagner, Claude ed. La musique populaire des Iles Britanniques, 1835-1915. Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens (50). Montpellier: Centre d'Études et de Recherches Victoriennes et Édouardiennes de l'Université Paul-Valéry, pp. 105–121.

Herbert, Trevor (1999). The practice and context of a private Victorian brass band. In: Zon, Bennett ed. Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies, Volume 1. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 105–118.

Herbert, Trevor (1999). Military music articles in the Farmer Collection. In: Cowl, Carl and Craik, Sheila M. eds. Henry George Farmer: A Bibliography. Glasgow: Glasgow University Library, xvii-xxi.

Herbert, Trevor (1998). Victorian brass bands: class, taste and space. In: Leyshon, Andrew; Matless, David and Revill, George eds. The Place of Music. New York: The Guilford Press, pp. 104–128.

Herbert, Trevor (1997). ‘Sackbut’: the early trombone. In: Herbert, Trevor and Wallace, John eds. The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 68–83.

Herbert, Trevor (1997). Brass bands and other vernacular brass traditions. In: Herbert, Trevor and Wallace, John eds. The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 177–192.

Dudgeon, Ralph T.; Eastop, Phillip; Herbert, Trevor and Wallace, John (1997). Playing, learning and teaching brass. In: Herbert, Trevor and Wallace, John eds. The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 193–206.

Herbert, Trevor (1997). Reconstruction of nineteenth-century band repertory: towards a protocol. In: Carter, Stewart ed. Persepctives in Brass Scholarship: Proceedings of the International Historic Brass Society Symposium, Amherst, 1995. Bucina: The Historic Brass Society Series (2). Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, pp. 185–213.

Herbert, Trevor (1992). A softening influence: R. T. Crawshay and the Cyfarthfa Band. In: Holley, T. F. ed. Merthyr Historian, Volume 5. Merthyr Tydfil: Merthyr Tydfil Historical Society, pp. 35–42.

Barlow, Helen and Herbert, Trevor (2020). Introduction - Listeners in music history: studying the evidence. Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 17(3) pp. 343–357.

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Herbert, Trevor (2020). Public Military Music and the Promotion of Patriotism in the British Provinces, c. 1780-c. 1850. Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 17(3) pp. 427–444.

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Herbert, Trevor (2019). Solo and ensemble brass instrument recordings. Early Music, 47(2) pp. 277–280.

Herbert, Trevor (2018). Cornetti e tromboni in the high Renaissance and Baroque. Early Music, 46(2) pp. 343–345.

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Herbert, Trevor (2016). Trumpets, drums and the sources for their symbolic authority in Britain. Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography,, 41(1-2) pp. 65–81.

Herbert, T. (2016). A Tudor manuscript granting livery to the King’s ‘Shakbots’. Historic Brass Society Journal, 28 pp. 191–198.

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Herbert, Trevor (2016). Adolphe Sax, his saxhorns and their international influence. Revue belge de musicologie/Belgisch tijdschrift voor muziekwetenschap, 70 pp. 65–76.

Herbert, Trevor (2013). Review of 'Music and theology in nineteenth-century Britain' ed. Martin V. Clarke (Ashgate 2012). Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 10(2) pp. 323–356.

Herbert, Trevor (2011). “…men of great perfection in their science…”: the trumpeter as musician and diplomat in England in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Historic Brass Society Journal, 23 pp. 1–23.

Herbert, Trevor and Myers, Arnold (2010). Music for the multitude: accounts of bands entering Enderby Jackson's Crystal Palace contests in the 1860s. Early Music, 38(4) pp. 571–584.

Herbert, Trevor (2010). Sousa, the band and the 'American century'. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 135(1) pp. 183–190.

Herbert, Trevor (2010). Trombone glissando: a case study in continuity and change in brass instrument performance idioms. Historic Brass Society Journal, 22, pp. 1–18.

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Herbert, Trevor (2008). Reviews - Sigmund Romberg, William A. Everett; Jerome Kern, Stephen Banfield. Studies in Musical Theatre, 2(3) pp. 295–297.

Herbert, Trevor (2004). Selling brass instruments: the commercial imaging of brass instruments (1830-1930) and its cultural messages. Music in Art, XXIX(1-2) pp. 213–226.

Herbert, Trevor and Sarkissian, Margaret (1997). Victorian bands and their dissemination in the colonies. Popular Music, 16(2) pp. 165–179.

Herbert, Trevor (1996). Late Victorian Welsh bands: taste, viruosity and Cymmrodorion attitudes. Welsh Music History, 1 pp. 92–102.

Herbert, Trevor (1993). The sackbut and pre-Reformation English church music. Historic Brass Society Journal, 5 pp. 146–158.

Herbert, Trevor (1992). Victorian brass bands: the establishment of a ‘working class musical tradition’. Historic Brass Society Journal, 4 pp. 1–11.

Herbert, Trevor (1991). A lament for Sam Hughes: the last Ophicleidist. Planet: the Welsh Internationalist, 87 pp. 66–75.

Herbert, Trevor (1990). The sackbut in England in the 17th and 18th centuries. Early Music, 18(4) pp. 609–616.

Herbert, Trevor (1990). The repertory of a Victorian provincial brass band. Popular Music, 9(1) pp. 117–132.

Sondheim, Stephen and Herbert, Trevor (1989). Sondheim's technique. Contemporary Music Review, 5(1) pp. 199–214.

Herbert, Trevor and Myers, Arnold (1988). Instruments of the Cyfarthfa Band. Galpin Society Journal, 41 pp. 2–10.

Herbert, Trevor (1988). The virtuosi of Merthyr. Llafur: the Journal of the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, 5(1) pp. 60–69.

Morales Tirado, Alba; Carvalho, Jason; Ratta, Marco; Uwasomba, Chukwudi; Mulholland, Paul; Barlow, Helen; Herbert, Trevor and Daga, Enrico (2024). Musical Meetups Knowledge Graph (MMKG): a collection of evidence for historical social network analysis. In: The Semantic Web. ESWC 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14665 (Meroño Peñuela, Albert; Dimou, Anastasia; Troncy, Raphael; Hartig, Olaf; Acosta, Maribel; Alam, Mehwish; Paulheim, Heiko and Lisena, Pasquale eds.), Springer, Cham.

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Barlow, Helen and Herbert, Trevor eds. (2020) Nineteenth-Century Music Review (17) Special Issue 3: The Experience of Listening to Music in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge University Press.

Herbert, Trevor (2011). Brass instruments. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music.

Herbert, Trevor (2007). The History of Brass Band Music: Classical Arrangements. Doyen.

Herbert, Trevor (2001). Baltic Brass. Deux-Elles.

Herbert, Trevor (2000). Hammered Brass. Linn.

Herbert, Trevor (1997). Virtuosi: Ian Bousfield. EMI.

Herbert, Trevor (1996). The Origin of the Species: The Cyfarthfa Repertory on Period Instruments. Nimbus.

Herbert, Trevor (1996). The Victorian Christmas. JVC.

Herbert, Trevor (1989). The trombone in 19th-century Italian opera. Welsh National Opera.

Herbert, Trevor and Wallace, John (1988). Divertimento in D: (Trumpet and Piano) by Josef Fiala. Faber Music, London.

Herbert, Trevor (2008). The Robert Minter collection: a handlist of seventeenth and eighteenth century trumpet repertory. The Open University. https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.rd.7258499.v1