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Clarke, Martin V. (2024). Music and Spirituality in Communal Song: Methodists and Welsh Sporting Crowds. In: Corbett, George and Moerman, Sarah eds. Music and Spirituality: Theological Approaches, Empirical Methods, and Christian Worship. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, pp. 371–388.

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Clarke, Martin (2024). [Book Review] Guy L. Beck. Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods, and Directions (SUNY Series in Religious Studies.) Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. Notes, 80(4) pp. 700–703.

Clarke, Martin V. (2024). 1780 Collection of Hymns. In: Norris, Clive Murray and Cunningham, Joseph W eds. The Routledge Companion to John Wesley. Routledge Religion Companions. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 114–125.

Clarke, Martin V. (2024). Music and Charles Wesley’s Legacy. The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture (In Press).

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Clarke, Martin V. (2023). [Book review] Eftychia Papanikolaou and Markus Rathey, eds, Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022). Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 20(2) pp. 438–442.

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

Clarke, Martin V. (2022). Nonconformists and Their Music. In: Herbert, Trevor; Clarke, Martin V. and Barlow, Helen eds. A History of Welsh Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 218–242.

Barlow, Helen and Clarke, Martin V. (2022). Singing Welshness: Sport, Music and the Crowd. In: Herbert, Trevor; Clarke, Martin V. and Barlow, Helen eds. A History of Welsh Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 332–354.

Hawn, C. Michael; Clarke, Martin V. and Howard, Beverly A. (2022). Christian Hymn: A Proposed Definition. In: Hawn, C. Michael ed. Sing with Understanding - Third Edition. Chicago: GIA, pp. 41–48.

Clarke, Martin V. and Howard, Beverly A. (2022). How Does a Hymn Mean? In: Hawn, C. Michael ed. Sing with Understanding - Third Edition. Chicago: GIA, pp. 49–76.

Clarke, Martin V. (2022). A Brief History of Congregational Song: Shaping Theology through Hymn Compilations. In: Hawn, C. Michael ed. Sing with Understanding (Third Edition). Chicago: GIA, pp. 77–112.

Clarke, Martin V. and Moore, Geoffrey C. (2022). "God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity": Singing the Trinity. In: Hawn, C. Michael ed. Sing with Understanding (Third Edition). Chicago: GIA, pp. 277–286.

Clarke, Martin V. and Hawn, C. Michael (2022). An Introduction to the Study of Congregational Song. In: Hawn, C. Michael ed. Sing with Understanding (Third Edition). Chicago: GIA, pp. 441–474.

Clarke, Martin V. (2022). Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania. By Sarah Justina Eyerly. Reading Religion Newsletter, 7(3-4)

Clarke, Martin V. (2021). Music. In: Barbeau, Jeffrey W. ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion. Cambridge Companions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 293–310.

Clarke, Martin V. (2021). Charles Wesley, Methodism and new art music in the long eighteenth century. Eighteenth-Century Music, 18(2) pp. 271–293.

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Clarke, Martin V. (2020). Hearing and Believing: Listening Experiences as Religious Experiences in Nineteenth-Century British Methodism. Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 17(3) pp. 381–402.

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Clarke, Martin V. (2020). Churches and Devotional Practice. In: Watt, Paul; Collins, Sarah and Allis, Michael eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Clarke, Martin V. (2019). ‘O Lord, open thou our lips’: listeners’ experiences of BBC Radio 3’s Choral Evensong on The New Radio 3 Forum. In: Barlow, Helen and Rowland, David eds. The Experience of Listening to Music: Methodologies, Identities, Histories. Milton Keynes: The Open University.

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Clarke, Martin V. (2019). [Book Review] Wesley Hymns. Wesley and Methodist Studies, 11(2) pp. 222–224.

Clarke, Martin V. (2019). “Come, all you people”: Lutheran Influences on the Spread of Global Hymnody. In: Schildt, Maria; Lundberg, Mattias and Lundblad, Jonas eds. Celebrating Lutheran Music: Scholarly Perspectives at the Quincentenary. Studia musicologica Upsaliensia. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, pp. 337–350.

Clarke, Martin V. (2018). Church musicians in nineteenth-century Durham. In: Golding, Rosemary ed. The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920: New Perspectives on Status and Identity. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 90–109.

Clarke, Martin V. (2018). 'Above all sing spiritually': musical reform and revival in Methodism. In: Fourteenth Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, 2018, Oxford Institute, Oxford.

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Clarke, Martin (2017). Listening to a singing people: accounts of Methodist hymn-singing. In: Barlow, Helen and Rowland, David eds. Listening to music: people, practices and experiences. The Open University.

Clarke, Martin V. (2017). British Methodist Hymnody: Theology, Heritage, and Experience. Routledge Methodist Studies. Abingdon: Routledge.

Clarke, Martin V. (2017). The Whole Church Sings: Congregational Singing in Luther’s Wittenberg, Robin A. Leaver (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017), 206 pp, £17.99, pbk. Holiness, 3(2) pp. 329–330.

Clarke, Martin V. (2016). [Digital Resource Review] Digital Hymnology: Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, Hymn Tune Index, Hymnary.org. Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 13(2) pp. 421–430.

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Clarke, Martin (2016). "And can it be": analysing the words, music and contexts of an iconic Methodist hymn. Yale Journal of Music and Religion, 2(1), article no. 2.

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Clarke, Martin (2014). 'Loud organs, his glory forth tell in deep tone': the interaction of music, liturgy, and theology in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. In: The Journal of the Royal College of Organists, 8 pp. 72–81.

Clarke, Martin (2012). 'Meet and Right it is to Sing': nineteenth-century hymnals and the reasons for singing. In: Clarke, Martin ed. Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Music in Ninteenth-Century Britain. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 21–36.

Clarke, Martin ed. (2012). Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Music in Ninteenth-Century Britain. Farnham: Ashgate.

Clarke, Martin V. (2012). Introduction. In: Clarke, Martin V. ed. Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 1–4.

Clarke, Martin (2010). John Frederick Lampe's Hymns on the Great Festivals and Other Occasions. In: Temperley, Nicholas and Banfield, Stephen eds. Music and the Wesleys. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 52–62.

Clarke, Martin (2010). The Illingworth Moor Singers' Book: a snapshot of Methodist music in the early ninteenth century. Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 7(1) pp. 81–103.