| Dhrupad: tradition and performance in Indian music R Sanyal, R Widdess Routledge, 2023 | 146 | 2023 |
| The ragas of early Indian music R Widdess Clarendon Press, 1995 | 115 | 1995 |
| Involving the performers in transcription and analysis: a collaborative approach to Dhrupad R Widdess Ethnomusicology 38 (1), 59-79, 1994 | 113 | 1994 |
| Historical ethnomusicology R Widdess Ethnomusicology: An Introduction, 219-237, 1992 | 65 | 1992 |
| Dāphā: sacred singing in a South Asian city: music, performance and meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal R Widdess Routledge, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| Music, meaning and culture R Widdess Empirical Musicology Review, 2012 | 40 | 2012 |
| The other classical musics: fifteen great traditions M Church, M Church, TE Miller, N Sorrell, D Hughes, F Kouwenhoven, ... Boydell and Brewer, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| India, subcontinent of HS Powers, R Widdess The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians 9, 98, 2001 | 36 | 2001 |
| Aspects of form in North Indian ālāp and dhrupad R Widdess Music and tradition: essays on Asian and other musics presented to Laurence …, 1981 | 36 | 1981 |
| Musical structure, performance and meaning: the case of a stick-dance from Nepal R Widdess Ethnomusicology forum 15 (2), 179-213, 2006 | 35 | 2006 |
| Incidental learning of melodic structure of north Indian music M Rohrmeier, R Widdess Cognitive science 41 (5), 1299-1327, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| Improvisation in Iranian and Indian music L Nooshin, R Widdess Journal of the Indian Musicological Society 36, 104-119, 2006 | 32 | 2006 |
| Dynamics of Melodic Discourse in Indian Music R Widdess Analytical and cross-cultural studies in world music, 187, 2011 | 27 | 2011 |
| Schemas and improvisation in Indian music R Widdess College Publications, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Caryā and cacā: Change and continuity in Newar Buddhist ritual song R Widdess Asian Music, 7-41, 2004 | 23 | 2004 |
| The Kuḍumiyāmalai inscription: a source of early Indian music in notation DR Widdess Musica Asiatica 2, 115-150, 1979 | 23 | 1979 |
| The oral in writing: early Indian musical notations R Widdess Early Music 24 (3), 391-406, 1996 | 20 | 1996 |
| Hindustani raga G Ruckert, R Widdess The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 64-88, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| Modelling the syntax of north Indian melodies with a generalized graph grammar C Finkensiep, R Widdess, MA Rohrmeier Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information …, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| Festivals of dhrupad in northern India: New contexts for an ancient art R Widdess British Journal of Ethnomusicology 3 (1), 89-109, 1994 | 17 | 1994 |
