| BHTBK | Baptist Hymn and Tune Book, 1857 |
| BS | Bible Songs (DeWitt) |
| CH | Church Harmony (Smith) |
| CHH | Christian Harmony (Walker) |
| CHI | Christian Harmony (Ingalls) |
| COH | Columbian Harmony (Moore) |
| CSH | Sacred Harp, 1902 (Cooper) |
| DT | Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro (Dett) |
| GCM | Genuine Church Music (Funk) |
| GOS | Good Old Songs (Cayce) |
| HH | Hesperian Harp (Hauser) |
| HOC | Harp of Columbia (Swan) |
| JAFL | Journal of American Folk-Lore |
| JFSS | Journal of the [English] Folk-Song Society |
| KYH | Kentucky Harmony (Davisson) |
| KNH | Knoxville Harmony (Jackson) |
| MHTBK | Methodist Hymn and Tune Book, 1889 |
| MOH | Missouri Harmony (Carden) |
| OL | Olive Leaf (Hauser) |
| OSH | Original Sacred Harp (James) |
| PB | Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune Book (Daily) |
| REV | Revivalist (Hillman) |
| SCB | South Carolina Ballads (Smith) |
| SH | Sacred Harp, 1844 (White and King) |
| SKH | Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony (Davisson) |
| SMM | Scots Musical Museum (Johnson) |
| SOC | Social Harp (McCurry) |
| SOG | Songs of Grace (Lorenz and Baltzell) |
| SOH | Southern Harmony (Walker) |
| SS | Slave Songs of the United States (Allen, Ware, and Garrison) |
| SWP | Southern and Western Pocket Harmonist (Walker) |
| TZ | Timbrel of Zion (Collins) |
| UH | Union Harmony (Caldwell) |
| UHH | Union Harmony (Hendrickson) |
| UHP | Union Harp and History of Songs (James) |
| VH | Virginia Harmony (Carrell) |
| WH | Western Harmony (Carden, Rogers, Moore, and Green) |
| WP | Western Psalmodist (Johnson) |
| WS | White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands (Jackson) |