| On concepts and classifications of musical instruments MJ Kartomi University of Chicago Press, 1990 | 435 | 1990 |
| The processes and results of musical culture contact: A discussion of terminology and concepts MJ Kartomi Ethnomusicology 25 (2), 227-249, 1981 | 338 | 1981 |
| The classification of musical instruments: Changing trends in research from the late nineteenth century, with special reference to the 1990s M Kartomi Ethnomusicology 45 (2), 283-314, 2001 | 98 | 2001 |
| Musical journeys in Sumatra M Kartomi University of Illinois Press, 2012 | 93 | 2012 |
| Music and trance in central Java MJ Kartomi Ethnomusicology, 163-208, 1973 | 87 | 1973 |
| Musical improvisations by children at play MJ Kartomi The world of music 33 (3), 53-65, 1991 | 75 | 1991 |
| Music\= Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions MJ Kartomi, S Blum Routledge, 2014 | 67 | 2014 |
| Performance, music and meaning of Reyog Ponorogo MJ Kartomi Indonesia, 85-130, 1976 | 67 | 1976 |
| Matjapat songs in central and west Java MJ Kartomi Australian National University Press, 1973 | 64 | 1973 |
| Traditional and Modern Forms of Pencak Silat in Indonesia: The Suku Mamak in Riau M Kartomi Musicology Australia 33 (1), 47-68, 2011 | 59 | 2011 |
| Childlikeness in play songs–A case study among the Pitjantjara at Yalata, South Australia M Kartomi Miscellanea Musicologica 11, 172-214, 1980 | 55 | 1980 |
| Concepts, terminology and methodology in music performativity research M Kartomi Musicology Australia 36 (2), 189-208, 2014 | 53 | 2014 |
| “Traditional Music Weeps” and Other Themes in the Discourse on Music, Dance and Theatre of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand MJ Kartomi Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26 (2), 366-400, 1995 | 44 | 1995 |
| Toward a Methodology of War and Peace Studies in Ethnomusicology: The Case of Aceh, 1976–2009 M Kartomi Ethnomusicology 54 (3), 452-483, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Musical instruments of indonesia: An introductory handbook MJ Kartomi Musicology Australia 10 (1), 1987 | 32 | 1987 |
| Instruments, classification of K Wachsmann, M Kartomi, EM Hornbostel, C Sachs Grove music online, 2001 | 29 | 2001 |
| the Pan-east/southeast Asian and national indonesian song Bengawan Solo and its Javanese composer M Kartomi Yearbook for Traditional Music 30, 85-101, 1998 | 27 | 1998 |
| The development of the Acehnese sitting song-dances and frame-drum genres as part of religious conversion and continuing piety M Kartomi Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-en volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and …, 2010 | 24 | 2010 |
| The Gamelan Digul and the Prison-Camp Musician who built it: An Australian Link with the Indonesion Revolution MJ Kartomi University of Rochester Press, 2002 | 20 | 2002 |
| Delineation of lullaby style in three areas of Aboriginal Australia MJ Kartomi Hale & Iremonger, 1984 | 20 | 1984 |
