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- ↑ Del Mar 1986, p. 450.
- ↑ May 2010, p. 189.
- ↑ Hurwitz 2014, p. 28.
- ↑ May 2010, pp. 189–90.
- ↑ Kennedy 1982, p. 62.
- ↑ Myers 1949.
- ↑ BBC Proms 1949.
- ↑ Anon. 2012.
- ↑ Del Mar 1986, p. 445.
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