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References
- Notes
- ↑ "Chamber Opera" in Oxford Music Online , accessed 19 December 2016. (subscription required).
- ↑ Searle (1958), p. (iii).
- Sources
- Searle, Humphrey (1958). The Diary of a Madman. London and Mainz: Schott and Co.
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