Tham khảo Marc-Antoine_Charpentier

  • Cessac, Catherine. Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Translated from the French ed. (Paris 1988) by E. Thomas Glasow. Portland (Oregon): Amadeus Press, 1995.
  • Cessac, Catherine, ed., Marc-Antoine Charpentier, un musicien retrouvé (Sprimont: Mardaga, 2005), a collection of pioneering works originally disseminated in the Bulletin Charpentier, 1989–2003. The bulk of the articles deal with his life and works: his family and its origins, Italy and Italianism at the Hôtel de Guise, his work for the Jesuits, the sale of his manuscripts, plus background information about specific works.
  • Cessac, Catherine, ed., Les Manuscrits autographes de Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Wavre: Mardaga, n.d.), papers presented at the conference held at Versailles, 2004. The articles in this volume focus primarily on what scholars can deduce from the 28 autograph volumes that contain his compositions.
  • Ranum, Patricia M. "A Sweet Servitude: A musician's life at the court of Mlle de Guise," Early Music, 15 (1987), các trang 347–60.
  • Ranum, Patricia M. "Lully Plays Deaf: Rereading the Evidence on his Privilege," in John Hajdu Heyer, ed., Lully Studies (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000), các trang 15–31, which focuses on Charpentier's powerful contacts.
  • Ranum, Patricia M. (2004). Portraits Around Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Baltimore: Dux Femina Facti. ISBN 978-0-9660997-3-7. 
  • Anthony, James R. French Baroque Music: From Beaujoyeulx to Rameau. Revised and expanded edition. Portland (Oregon): Amadeus Press, 1997.
  • Hitchcock, H.W. Les Œuvres de Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Catalogue Raisonné. Paris: Picard, 1982.
  • Thomas, Downing A. Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647–1785. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Tunley, David. The Eighteenth-Century French Cantata. 2nd edition. Oxford (UK): Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1997.