| Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900 L Kramer Univ of California Press, 1993 | 845 | 1993 |
| Musical meaning: Toward a critical history L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2021 | 726 | 2021 |
| Classical music and postmodern knowledge L Kramer Univ of California Press, 1995 | 684 | 1995 |
| Music and poetry: The nineteenth century and after L Kramer | 530 | 1984 |
| Interpreting music L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2011 | 360 | 2011 |
| Why classical music still matters L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2007 | 244 | 2007 |
| Franz Schubert: sexuality, subjectivity, song L Kramer Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 201 | 2003 |
| Musical narratology: A theoretical outline L Kramer Indiana theory review 12, 141-162, 1991 | 178 | 1991 |
| Beyond the soundtrack: representing music in cinema DI Goldmark, L Kramer, R Leppert Univ of California Press, 2007 | 161 | 2007 |
| After the lovedeath: Sexual violence and the making of culture L Kramer Univ of California Press, 1997 | 138 | 1997 |
| Opera and modern culture: Wagner and Strauss L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2004 | 125 | 2004 |
| Culture and musical hermeneutics: The Salome complex L Kramer Cambridge Opera Journal 2 (3), 269-294, 1990 | 104 | 1990 |
| Musicology and meaning L Kramer The Musical Times 144 (1883), 6-12, 2003 | 102 | 2003 |
| Subjectivity rampant! Music, hermeneutics and history L Kramer | 89 | 2003 |
| The musicology of the future L Kramer repercussions 1 (1), 5-18, 1992 | 81 | 1992 |
| Dangerous liaisons: The literary text in musical criticism L Kramer Nineteenth-Century Music, 159-167, 1989 | 81 | 1989 |
| Music criticism and the postmodernist turn: In contrary motion with Gary Tomlinson L Kramer Current Musicology 53, 25-35, 1993 | 72 | 1993 |
| The thought of music L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2016 | 65 | 2016 |
| The Mirror of Tonality: Transitional Features of Nineteenth-Century Harmony L Kramer Nineteenth-Century Music, 191-208, 1981 | 60 | 1981 |
| Haydn's Chaos, Schenker's Order; or, Hermeneutics and Musical Analysis: Can They Mix? L Kramer Nineteenth-Century Music, 3-17, 1992 | 57 | 1992 |
