Adlington, Robert C. (2018) Politics and the popular in British Music Theatre of the Vietnam era. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 143 (2). pp. 433-471. ISSN 0269-0403
Adlington, Robert C. (2018) Modernism: The People’s Music? In: The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music. Routledge. ISBN 9781472470409
Adlington, Robert C. (2016) The Crises of Sense: Listening to Berio’s Un re in ascolto. In: Le théâtre musical de Luciano Berio. L'Harmattan, Paris, pp. 53-78. ISBN 978-2336303871
Adlington, Robert C. (2016) Whose Voices? The Fate of Luigi Nono’s Voci destroying muros. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 69 (1). pp. 179-236. ISSN 0003-0139
Adlington, Robert C. (2014) Expressive Revolutions: 1968 and Music in the Netherlands. In: Music and Protest in 1968. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 12-28. ISBN 978-1107504318
Adlington, Robert C. (2013) Composing Dissent: Avant-garde Music in 1960s Amsterdam. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0199981014
Adlington, Robert C. (2013) Communisms, Communist Musics. In: Red Strains: Music and Communism Outside the Communist Bloc. British Academy / Oxford University Press, London, pp. 1-19. ISBN 978-0197265390
Adlington, Robert C. (2013) Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc. British Academy / Oxford University Press, London. ISBN 978-0197265390
Adlington, Robert C. (2009) Forms of Opposition at the 'Politiek-Demonstratief Experimenteel' Concert. In: Sound Commitments: Avant-garde Music and the 1960s. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 56-77. ISBN 978-0195336658
Adlington, Robert C. (2009) Sound commitments : avant garde music and the 1960s. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0195336658
Adlington, Robert C. (2009) Tuning in and Dropping Out: The Disturbance of the Dutch Premiere of Stockhausen's Stimmung. Music and Letters, 90 (1). pp. 94-112. ISSN 0027-4224
Adlington, Robert C. (2008) 1968 and New Music in the Netherlands. In: Music Cultures in The Revolt: Studies on Rock, Avantgarde and Classical In the Environment From "1968. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 103-114. ISBN 978-3515090858
Adlington, Robert C. (2008) Organizing Labor: Composers, Performers, and “the Renewal of Musical Practice” in the Netherlands, 1969–72. Musical Quarterly, 90 (3-4). pp. 539-577. ISSN 0027-4631
Adlington, Robert C. (2008) The Music of Harrison Birtwistle. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0521027809
Adlington, Robert C. (2008) Music theatre since the 1960s. In: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 225-243. ISBN 978-0521783934
Adlington, Robert C. (2007) “A Sort of Guerrilla”: Che at the Opera. Cambridge Opera Journal, 19 (2). pp. 167-193. ISSN 0954-5867
Adlington, Robert C. (2004) Louis Andriessen: De Staat. Ashgate, Aldershot. ISBN 978-0754609254
Adlington, Robert C. (2004) Louis Andriessen, Hanns Eisler, and the Lehrstück. Journal of Musicology, 21 (3). pp. 381-417. ISSN 0277-9269
Adlington, Robert C. (2003) A Conversation with Harrison Birtwistle. In: Aspects of British Music in the 1990s. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 111-118. ISBN 9780754630418
Adlington, Robert C. (2003) In the Shadows of Song: Birtwistle’s Nine Movements for String Quartet. In: Aspects of British Music of the 1990s. Ashgate, Aldershot. ISBN 9780754630418
Adlington, Robert C. (2003) Moving Beyond Motion: Metaphors for Changing Sound. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 128 (2). pp. 297-318. ISSN 0269-0403
Adlington, Robert C. (2002) "Good Lodging": Harrison Birtwistle’s Reception of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In: King Arthur in Music. Brewer, Cambridge, pp. 127-143. ISBN 978-0859917674
Adlington, Robert C. (2001) Taking Soundings: Music, Non-Music and Slave Pianos. In: Slave Pianos: A Diagnosis, 1998-2001. Revolver, Frankfurt, pp. 7-15. ISBN 978-3934823174
Adlington, Robert C. (2001) Counting Time, Countering Time: Louis Andriessen’s De Tijd. Indiana Theory Review, 22. pp. 1-35. ISSN 0271-8022