| Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900 L Kramer Univ of California Press, 1993 | 887 | 1993 |
| Musical meaning: Toward a critical history L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2001 | 728 | 2001 |
| Classical music and postmodern knowledge L Kramer Univ of California Press, 1995 | 707 | 1995 |
| Music and Poetry, the Nineteenth Century and after L Kramer | 524 | 1984 |
| Interpreting music L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2011 | 390 | 2011 |
| Why classical music still matters L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2007 | 246 | 2007 |
| Franz Schubert: sexuality, subjectivity, song L Kramer Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 206 | 2003 |
| Musical narratology: A theoretical outline L Kramer Indiana theory review 12, 141-162, 1991 | 193 | 1991 |
| Beyond the soundtrack: representing music in cinema D Goldmark, L Kramer, RD Leppert Univ of California Press, 2007 | 169 | 2007 |
| Opera and modern culture: Wagner and Strauss L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2004 | 134 | 2004 |
| After the lovedeath: Sexual violence and the making of culture L Kramer Univ of California Press, 1997 | 133 | 1997 |
| Musicology and meaning L Kramer The Musical Times 144 (1883), 6-12, 2003 | 107 | 2003 |
| Culture and musical hermeneutics: The Salome complex L Kramer Cambridge Opera Journal 2 (3), 269-294, 1990 | 104 | 1990 |
| The musicology of the future L Kramer repercussions 1 (1), 5-18, 1992 | 89 | 1992 |
| Dangerous liaisons: The literary text in musical criticism L Kramer Nineteenth-Century Music, 159-167, 1989 | 88 | 1989 |
| Subjectivity rampant! Music, hermeneutics and history L Kramer | 81 | 2003 |
| The thought of music L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2016 | 80 | 2016 |
| Music criticism and the postmodernist turn: In contrary motion with Gary Tomlinson L Kramer Current Musicology 53, 25-35, 1993 | 70 | 1993 |
| The Mirror of Tonality: Transitional Features of Nineteenth-Century Harmony L Kramer Nineteenth-Century Music, 191-208, 1981 | 60 | 1981 |
| Expression and Truth: On the Music of Knowledge L Kramer Univ of California Press, 2012 | 59 | 2012 |