Desmond, Karen (2023) The Indicative Mood: A Response to Margaret Bent. Music and Letters, 104 (1). pp. 114-122. ISSN 0027-4224
Desmond, Karen (2020) W. de Wicumbe's Rolls and Singing the Alleluya ca. 1250. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 73 (3). pp. 639-709. ISSN 0003-0139
Desmond, Karen, Hopkins, Emily, Howes, Samuel and Cumming, Julie E. (2020) Computer-aided Analysis of Sonority in the French Motet Repertory, ca. 1300–1350. Music Theory Online, 26 (4). ISSN 1067-3040
Desmond, Karen (2019) Review: Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML). Journal of the American Musicological Society, 72 (3). pp. 887-902. ISSN 0003-0139
Desmond, Karen (2019) Jean des Murs and the Three Libelli on Music in BnF lat. 7378A: A Preliminary Report. Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 4 (1). pp. 40-63. ISSN 2405-5050
Nothaft, C. Philipp E., Desmond, Karen and Husson, Matthieu (2019) Jean des Murs’s Quadrivial Pursuits: Introduction. Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 4 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2405-5050
Desmond, Karen and Zayaruznaya, Anna (2018) Editorial. Early Music, 46 (3). p. 373. ISSN 0306-1078
Desmond, Karen (2018) ‘One is the loneliest number . . .’: the semibreve stands alone. Early Music, 46 (3). pp. 403-416. ISSN 0306-1078
Desmond, Karen (2018) Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Liturgy, Sources, Symbolism. Ed. by Benjamin Brand and David J. Rothenberg. Music and Letters, 99 (2). pp. 278-281. ISSN 0027-4224
Desmond, Karen (2015) Clergy and city. Early Music, 43 (2). pp. 320-322. ISSN 0306-1078
Desmond, Karen (2015) Review: Yolanda Plumley, The Art of Grafted Song: Citation and Allusion in the Age of Machaut. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxiv + 460 pp. £48. ISBN 978 0 199 91508 8. Plainsong and Medieval Music, 24 (1). pp. 99-103. ISSN 0961-1371
Desmond, Karen (2013) Refusal, the look of love, and the beastly woman of Machaut's Balades 27 and 38. Early Music History, 32. pp. 71-118. ISSN 0261-1279