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- ↑ Goldberg: early music magazine, Issues 14–15 p.16
- ↑ Hughes, Anselm; Abraham, Gerald (1960). "New Oxford History of Music: Ars Nova and the Renaissance, 1300–1540".
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- ↑ Facsimile : Il codice α.M.5.24 (ModA), Lucca, Libreria musicale italiana, 2003–2005 ISBN 88-7096-340-3
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