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- ↑ http://music.rice.edu/facultybios/baker.shtml Archived 2017-06-04 at the Wayback Machine Website and biography of George Baker at Rice University. Accessed September 23, 2022.
- ↑ http://www.orgues-chartres.org/george-c-baker/?lang=en Biography of George Baker on the website of the Grandes Orgues de Chartres Association. Accessed September 23, 2022.
- ↑ Introduction by the Author, in George Baker, Organ Improvisation: A Workbook of Ideas and Exercises Leading to New Musical Creations (Dallas, TX: Baroque Notes, Inc., 2022), 9.
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