Cowgill, Rachel (2016) ‘Proofs of Genius’: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Construction of Musical Prodigies in Early Georgian London. In: Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 511-549. ISBN 9780199685851
Dix, Alan, Bashford, Christina, Cowgill, Rachel, McVeigh, Simon and Ridgewell, Rupert (2016) Spreadsheets as User Interfaces. In: Proceedings of AVI 2016 (the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces), 7-10 June 2016. ACM, Italy: Bari, pp. 192-195. ISBN 978-1-4503-4131-8
Dix, Alan, Cowgill, Rachel, Bashford, Christina, McVeigh, Simon and Ridgewell, Rupert (2014) Authority and Judgement in the Digital Archive. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop (DLfM 2014), ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries Conference. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series . City University, London, pp. 33-40.
Turner, Sarah V, Mansell, James, Scheer, Christopher and Cowgill, Rachel (2014) Pioneering Spirit: Maud MacCarthy - Music, Mysticism and Modernity. [Show/Exhibition]
Cowgill, Rachel (2012) On the Beat: The Victorian Policeman as Musician. In: Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain . Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 221-246. ISBN 9781409405832
Cowgill, Rachel and Poriss, Hilary (2012) The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 9780195365870
Cowgill, Rachel (2012) 'Attitudes with a Shawl': Femininity, Performance, and Spectatorship at the Italian Opera in early nineteenth-century London. In: The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 217-251. ISBN 9780195365870
Cowgill, Rachel (2012) Performance Alfresco: Music-Making in English Pleasure Gardens. In: The Pleasure Garden: From Vauxhall to Coney Island. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 100-126. ISBN 9780812244380
Cowgill, Rachel (2011) Canonizing Remembrance: Music for Armistice Day at the BBC, 1922-7. First World War Studies: Journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, 2 (1). pp. 75-107. ISSN 1947-5020
Cowgill, Rachel, Cooper, David and Brown, Clive (2010) Art and Ideology in European Opera: Essays in Honour of Julian Rushton. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge. ISBN 9781843835677
Cowgill, Rachel (2010) New Light and the Man of Might: Revisiting Early Interpretations of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. In: Art and Ideology in European Opera: Essays in Honour of Julian Rushton. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, pp. 194-221. ISBN 9781843835677
Cowgill, Rachel (2010) Of Science and Nature: Mozart versus the Modern Bel Canto in early nineteenth-century London. In: Mozart, Marcos Portugal e o seu tempo [Mozart, Marcos Portugal and their Times]. Edições Colibri/Centro de Estudos da Sociologia e Estética Musica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, pp. 35-51. ISBN 9789727729593
Cowgill, Rachel (2009) Barthelemon family; Burney, Charles; Crotch, William; Gardiner, William; Horn family; Latrobe, Christian Ignatius; Novello; Peploe, Mrs. In: Oxford Composer Companions: Haydn. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199554522
Cowgill, Rachel (2009) Germondo and Vittorino: Genre and Politics in the London Reception of Goldoni's Libretti in the 1770s. Problemi di Critica Goldoniana, 14. pp. 231-265. ISSN 1127-2570
Cowgill, Rachel and Dideriksen, Gabriella (2008) Opera Orchestras in Georgian and Early Victorian London. In: The Opera Orchestra in 18th-and 19th-Century Europe: Vol. I The Orchestra in Society. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 259-321. ISBN 9783830514879
Cowgill, Rachel (2008) 'Such scientific and profound harmonies': The Italian Opera Orchestra and Early Performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni in London. In: The Opera Orchestra in 18th-and 19th-Century Europe: Vol. II The Orchestra in the Theatre - Composers, Works, and Performance. Musical Life in Europe, 1600-1900: Circulation, Institutions and Representation, 1/2 . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9783830514886
Cowgill, Rachel (2007) Disputing Choruses in 1760s Halifax: Joah Bates, William Herschel, and the Messiah Club. In: Music in the British Provinces, 1690-1914. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 87-113. ISBN 9780754631606
Cowgill, Rachel and Holman, Peter (2007) Music in the British Provinces, 1690-1914. Ashgate, Aldershot. ISBN 9780754631606
Cowgill, Rachel (2007) Elgar's War Requiem. In: Elgar and His World. The Bard Music Festival . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, pp. 317-362. ISBN 9781400832101
Hewitt, Martin and Cowgill, Rachel (2007) Victorian Soundscapes Revisited. Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, 9 . Leeds Trinity & All Saints/Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies/Leeds University Centre for English Music, Leeds. ISBN 0954015983
Cowgill, Rachel and Rushton, Julian (2006) Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music. Music in 19th-Century Britain . Ashgate, Aldershot. ISBN 9780754652083
Cowgill, Rachel (2006) 'Hence, base intruder, hence': Rejection and Assimilation in the Early English Reception of Mozart's Requiem. In: Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain . Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 9-30. ISBN 9780754652083
Cowgill, Rachel (2006) Mozart Productions and the Emergence of Werktreue at London's Italian Opera House, 1780-1830. In: Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 145-186. ISBN 9780754650980
Cowgill, Rachel (2006) Callas, Maria; Female cross-dressing; Lang, k.d.; Opera; Opera queens; Sutherland, Joan. In: The Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Queer Culture. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415306515
Butler, Philip, Cowgill, Rachel, Duffy, Celia, Hand, Richard J. and Price, Deborah (2006) Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on the British Library's Archival Sound Recordings Project. Performance Research, 11 (4). pp. 117-126. ISSN 1469-9990
Cowgill, Rachel (2005) The Cradle of Music in Ireland, review of Barra Boydell, A History of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Early Music, 33 (3). pp. 514-515. ISSN 03061078
Cowgill, Rachel (2004) Billington, Elizabeth; Stephens, Catherine. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198614111
Bashford, Christina, Cowgill, Rachel and McVeigh, Simon (2003) The Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century London Database Project. In: Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 2 . Ashgate, Aldershot, 1 -12. ISBN 9780754636144
Cowgill, Rachel (2002) Review of Brian Robins, The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828). Early Music, 30 (3). pp. 470-471. ISSN 0306-1078
Cowgill, Rachel (2002) The Business of Music in Late Georgian and Victorian Halifax. Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, 10. pp. 77-95. ISSN 1351-5705
Cowgill, Rachel (2002) An Unknown Handel Arrangement by Mozart?: The Halifax Judas. Musical Times, 143. pp. 19-36. ISSN 0027-4666
Cowgill, Rachel (2001) Braham, John; Catalani, Angelica; Corri family; Crouch, Anna Maria; Harrison family; Kelly, Michael; Linley family; Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Ries, Ferdinand; Singing. In: An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199245437
Cowgill, Rachel (2001) Savage, Jane; Weichsel, Charles. In: New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians. Macmillan, London, UK. ISBN 9780333608005
Cowgill, Rachel (2000) 'Wise Men from the East': Mozart's Operas and their Advocates in Early Nineteenth-Century London. In: Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 39-64. ISBN 9780198167303
Cowgill, Rachel (2000) The Papers of C.I. Latrobe: New Light on Musicians, Music, and the Christian Family in Late Eighteenth-Century England. In: Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 234-258. ISBN 9781840146882
Cowgill, Rachel (2000) 'The most musical spot for its size in the kingdom': Music in Georgian Halifax. Early Music, 28 (4). pp. 557-575. ISSN 0306-1078
Cowgill, Rachel (1999) Burney, Charles; Opera, English. In: The Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism. Fitzroy Dearborn/Routledge, Chicago, USA. ISBN 9781579581435
Cowgill, Rachel (1998) The London Apollonicon Recitals, 1817-32: A Case Study in Bach, Mozart, and Haydn Reception. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 123 (2). pp. 190-228. ISSN 0269-0403
Cowgill, Rachel (1998) Re-Gendering the Libertine; or, The Taming of the Rake: Lucy Vestris as Don Giovanni on the Early Nineteenth-Century London Stage. Cambridge Opera Journal, 10 (1). pp. 45-66. ISSN 0954-5867
Cowgill, Rachel (1992) Le nozzi di Figaro voor het voetlicht te London, 1786-1813. Musica Antiqua. pp. 168-177.