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To begin

Consult the following New Grove articles:

Ambrosian Chant

122 Ambrosian responsories : transcriptions and analyses by Terence Bailey
Publication Date: 2014
The transitoria of the Ambrosian mass by Terence Bailey
Publication Date: 2002
The transitoria are unique to the Milanese Rite; they're a second Communion chant, sung when the priest carries the missal to the other side of the altar.
The Melodic tradition of the Ambrosian office-antiphons by Terence Bailey and Paul Merkley
Publication Date: 1990
A collection of those Office antiphons associated with psalms or canticles.

Beneventan Chant

Beneventanum troporum corpus by Alejandro Enrique Planchart and John Boe
Publication Date: 1989

Chant in English

Since the Reformation, attempts have been made to adapt plainchant to vernacular languages. This has been problematic, because the word stresses and grammar vary so greatly between the languages. Current Catholic attempts to produce English chant generally involve writing new music in a simplified chant style, rather than fitting English words to Gregorian melodies. Examples of this are found in various commercial products, and provided through the Church Music Association of America. Listed below are the sources held by Kulas, which take the older approach.

The plainchant gradual. by the Rev. G. H. Palmer and Francis Burgess
Publication Date: 1965
Palmer and Burgess were the main authors working with chant in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. This is the Proper of Time in square notation, with Prayer Book English words. Not to be confused with Burgess' English Gradual (var. editions), which sets the Proper to psalm tones in the manner of Fr. Carlo Rossini's Propers, but in English and more legibly.

Mozarabic chant

Antiphons, responsories, and other chants of the Mozarabic rite by Clyde Waring Brockett, Jr
Publication Date: 1965
Microfilm of thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1965
Antiphons, responsories, and other chants of the Mozarabic rite by Clyde Waring Brockett, Jr
Published book based on thesis.

Sarum chant

Technically, the Use of Salisbury (Sarum chant) is a Use, rather than a type of chant (it's Gregorian), but it's individual enough to be included here. These are the books you'd consult to restore pre-Reformation English Catholic music.

Antiphonale Sarisburiense. A reproduction in facsim. of a ms. of the 13 th century, with a diss. and analytical index by Walter Howard Frere
1966 reprint of early 20th-c, facsimile of 13th c, manuscript. One volume of analysis, 6 volumes of photos.

Graduale ad usũ ecclesie Sarisburiensis
1532 print, via Early English Books Online

Graduale Sarisburiense; a reproduction in facsim. of a ms. of the 13th century, with a diss. and historical index illustrating its development from the Gregorian Antiphonale Missarum by Walter Howard Frere
1966 reprint of 1894 facsimile of 13th c. original

Hymnorum cum notis opusculũ vsum insignis ecclesie sarum subseruies:
London 1555, via Early English Books Online

The use of Sarum : the original texts edited from the mss. by introduction and index by Walter Howard Frere
Publication Date: 1969 reprint of 1898
The nonmusical, purely liturgical parts of the Sarum Rite.
The use of Salisbury by Nick Sandon
Publication Date: 1984

Plainchant at CWRU