Music is one of the most widespread and enduring cultural activities to be found in Northamptonshire. Before the advent of organs in parish churches, choir-bands supported by a variety of instruments involved at least as large a proportion of many local populations as in the era of surpliced choirs. These developments and glimpses of some local composers can be found in the resources listed below.
- A brief history of music and musicians at Walgrave Baptist Chapel, Northamptonshire by Stephen J Weston [2019] (page 23)
- A Northamptonshire Composer - Thomas Jarman of Clipston by Stephen J Weston [1993] (page 385)
- Another Baptist Village Musician by R L Greenall [1993] (page 391)Tribute originally published in 1887 to the late John Billingham of Kislingbury.
- Banding in Jimmy's End: The 4th Northampton Company (Doddridge Memorial) Boys Brigade Silver Band Remembered by Margaret Black [1991] (page 238)
- Moulton Church and its Bells by Sidney Joseph Madge [1895]
- On Church Music and the fitting of Churches for Music by Henry E L Dryden [1853] A paper read at the Architectural Society for the Archdeaconry of Northampton.
- Raunds Temperance Brass Band
- The Church Bells of Northamptonshire: their inscriptions, traditions and peculiar uses by Thomas North [1878] Includes chapters on Northamptonshire bell founders and other founders of Northamptonshire bells.
- The Early Days of the Northamptonshire Musical Competitions by Delia Peel [1957] (page 168)
- The Instrumentation and Music of the Church Choir-Band in Eastern England, with Particular Reference to Northamptonshire, during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries by Stephen J Weston [1995]
- Thomas Jarman (1776-1861) [1990] A noted composer from Clipston.