Matsumoto, Naomi. 2025. The Challenge of Music History: 10 Works from the 'Musical Canon' and Their Meanings. Tokyo: Asahi Newspaper Publications Inc.. [Book] (Forthcoming)

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2025. Dreaming of Wagner: Opera in Japan, Gluck and the Aspiration for 'National Theatre'. In: Clair Rowden and Paulo M Kuhl, eds. Opera in Transnational Contexts: Circulating Identities and Cultures. Routledge. [Book Section] (Forthcoming)

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude and Matsumoto, Naomi. 2024. Christophe Ballard/Michel Richard de Lalande Ballet de La Jeunesse. Paris: Classiques Garnier. [Book] (Forthcoming)

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude and Matsumoto, Naomi. 2024. Exoticism or Eclecticism? Carnival at Court and the Mascarade du Roy de la Chine. In: Marie-Claude Canova-Green, ed. Spectacular Orientalism in Early Modern Europe. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. ISBN 9782503610566 [Book Section] (In Press)

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2024. Representing Insanity and the Crisis of Identity through Henry Purcell's 'Bess of Bedlam'. Swiss Journal of Musicology, 40, pp. 11-40. ISSN 0259-3165 [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2023. Realising Arianna: the Problematic Accompaniments of Claudio Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna. In: Marcello Mazzetti, ed. Basso Continuo in Italy: Sources, Pedagogy and Performance. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, pp. 3-29. ISBN 9782503608501 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2023. "Madama Butterfly": Prospettive occidentali e giapponesi a confronto. Commentari dell'Ateneo di Brescia, ISSN 1594-8218 [Article] (Forthcoming)

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2023. Representational Conventions and Varieties of Operatic Madness: The Gap between Dramaturgy and Diagnosis. In: Lorenzo Lorusso; Michele Augusto Riva and Vittorio Alessandro Sironi, eds. Effects of Opera Music from Brain to Body: A Matter of Wellbeing. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 125-129. ISBN 9783031347689 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2023. Music Historiography: How and why music history has been written. Tokyo: Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc.. ISBN 9784636101164 [Book]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2022. Critical Edition of Anonymous, Lo Spedale. Middleton, Wisconsin, United States: A-R Editions. ISBN 9781987208146 [Book]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2022. Notice sur l'établissement de la musique. In: Marie-Claude Canova-Green and Suzanne Jones, eds. Raymond Poisson: Théâtre complet. Paris: Classique Garnier, pp. 53-60. ISBN 9782406125198 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2021. Madam Butterfly and the Forging of Japanese Identity. History Today, 71(3), pp. 28-37. ISSN 0018-2753 [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2020. The Other Reversed? Japan’s Assimilation of Carmen, 1885 to 1945. In: Richard Langham Smith and Clair Rowden, eds. Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 284-303. ISBN 9781108481618 [Book Section]

Norton, Barley and Matsumoto, Naomi, eds. 2019. Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781138228047 [Edited Book]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2019. The Mad Scene: Portrayals of Insanity in Opera. Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 48(3), ISSN 0300-032X [Article]

Norton, Barley. 2019. Filming Music as Heritage: The Cultural Politics of Audiovisual Representation. In: Barley Norton and Naomi Matsumoto, eds. Music as Heritage: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 79-101. ISBN 9781138228047 [Book Section]

Norton, Barley and Matsumoto, Naomi. 2019. Introduction: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives on Music as Heritage. In: Barley Norton and Naomi Matsumoto, eds. Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781138228047 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2018. Pio Enea Obizzi: Power and Authorship. In: R Rasch, ed. Music and Power in the Baroque Era. 6 Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 275-298. ISBN 9782503580715 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2018. L'opera dei pupi, Torneo, and Early Opera: Shared Traditions and Intangible Experiences. In: Barley Norton and Naomi Matsumoto, eds. Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Routledge-Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781138228047 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2017. Giovanni Vittorio Rosi's Musical Theatre: Opera, Operetta and the Westernisation of Modern Japan. In: Michela Niccolai and Clair Rowden, eds. Musical Theatre in Europe 1830-1945. Turnout: Brepols, pp. 351-385. ISBN 9782503577661 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2017. Goldsmiths Research Questions: How does opera represent madness?. [Film/Video]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2016. "Ghost Writing”: an Exploration of Presence and Absence in Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)’. Word and Music Studies, 15, pp. 63-84. ISSN 1566-0958 [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi, ed. 2015. Staging Verdi and Wagner. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 9782503564821 [Edited Book]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2015. Book Review: James Kennaway (ed.), Music and the Nerves, 1700–1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014),. Medical History, LIX(2), pp. 333-335. ISSN 0025-7273 [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2015. Charles Marshall’s “Dioramic” Scenery: Staging Verdi in Victorian London. In: , ed. Staging Verdi and Wagner. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 53-80. ISBN 9782503564821 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2014. Michael Costa at the Haymarket: the Establishment of the Modern Role of 'The Director of Music'. In: Roberto Illiano and Michela Niccolai, eds. Orchestral Conducting in the Nineteenth Century. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 25-60. ISBN 9782503552477 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2014. Il plagio vs "una piacevole reminiscenza al nostro orecchio". The Siege of Rochelle (1835) di Michael Balfe e il "lavoro culturale" della critica estetica. Estetica Studi e Ricerche, iv(1), pp. 83-100. ISSN 2039-6635 [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2014. Nature in Music, Music in Nature: Imitation, Quotation and Representation. In: Naomi Matsumoto and Kazuto Yamamoto, eds. SHIZENGAKU: the Search for a Coming Aesthetic. Kyoto, Japan: Nakanishiya, pp. 124-133. ISBN 9784779507915 [Book Section]

Pryer, Anthony J.. 2014. ‘Real’ Nature, ‘Aesthetic’ Nature and the Making of Artworks: Some Challenges of Cross-Cultural Collaboration (in Japanese Translation). In: Kazuto Yamamoto and Naomi Matsumoto, eds. Shizengaku: a Search for the Coming Aesthetic. Kyoto: Nakanishiya, pp. 6-26. ISBN ISBN 978-4-7795-0791-5 [Book Section]

Drever, John L.. 2014. SHIZENGAKU [BIWA/BIWAKO]: SONIC COMPLEMENT, COUNTERPOINT OR INTERPENETRATION? In: Kazuto Yamamoto and Naomi Matsumoto, eds. SHIZENGAKU: the Search for a Coming Aestethetic. Kyoto: Nakanishiya, pp. 52-61. ISBN 978-4-7795-0791-5 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi and Yamamoto, Kazuto, eds. 2014. SHIZENGAKU: the Search for a Coming Aesthetic. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. ISBN 978-4-9907368-0-4 [Edited Book]

Pryer, Anthony J.. 2013. 'Real' Nature, 'Aesthetic' Nature and the Making of Artworks: Some Challenges of Cross-Cultural Collaboration. In: Kazuto Yamamoto and Naomi Matsumoto, eds. Shizengaku: A Search for the Coming Aesthetic. Kyoto: Nakanishiya, pp. 6-26. ISBN 978-4-7795-0791-5 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2012. Instrumental Music and the Industrial Revolution. Ad Parnassum: Journal of 18th and 19th century Instrumental Music, 10(20), [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2012. Anonymous: Lo Spedale. [Project]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2012. Liner notes to Angelo Ephrikian (dir.), Jacopo Peri: L’Euridice. Jacopo Peri: L’Euridice, [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2012. Liner notes to Cappella Marciana, Voce Mea ad Dominum: Celebrations of the 400th Anniversary of the death of G. Croce da Chioggia. Celebrations of the 400th Anniversary of the death of G. Croce da Chioggia, [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2012. Liner notes to Paolo Cammozzo (dir.), Laudate Dominum: Masters of the Chapel of St Mark’s. Laudate Dominum: Masters of the Chapel of St Mark’s, [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2012. Liner notes to Quintetto Vocale Italiano, Gesualdo. Gesualdo Six Books of Madrigals for 5 Voices, [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2011. Pierto A. Ziani: Le fortune di Damira e Rodope. [Project]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2011. Manacled Freedom: 19th-Century Vocal Improvisation and the Flute-Accompanied Cadenza in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. In: Rudolf Rasch, ed. Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 295-316. ISBN 978-2503542447 [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2011. Pio Enea degli Obizzi and the Opera Torneo Genre – Towards an Understanding of the Commercialisation of Early Italian Opera’. The Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan, lvii(1), pp. 56-68. ISSN 00302597 [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2010. Englishness and Burlesque on the London Stage: the Case of The Dragon of Wantley. The Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan, 55(2), pp. 97-110. [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2009. The dating of MS, GB-Lcm: n. 927, The Dragon of Wantley. The Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan, 54(1), pp. 75-77. [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2008. The Identity of the librettist of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. The Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan, 53(2), pp. 134-137. [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2008. Motoo Ohtaguro interviews Prokofiev. Three Oranges: the Journal of the Sergey Prokofiev Foundation, 15, pp. 9-13. [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2007. 1001 Classical Recordings. In: Matthew Rye, ed. 1001 Classical Recordings. London: Quintessence, 24-34, 38, 42-48, 50-54, 56-59, 62-64. [Book Section]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2006. An anonymous setting of L’Ospedale and the question of an “asylum opera” genre. The Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan, pp. 45-61. [Article]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2005. The operatic mad scene: its origins and early development up to c.1700. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]

Matsumoto, Naomi. 2002. 'Global Presentations of Madness in Musical Theatres: a Comparative Study of Britten’s Curlew River and Juro Motomasa’s Sumidagawa'. In: Musicology and Globalization: Proceedings of the International Congress. Shizuoka, Japan. [Conference or Workshop Item]