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- ↑ Biographical Dictionary of Australian Composers (Australian Music Centre, 1996), p. 99.
- ↑ International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory (Melrose Press, 1985), p. 355.
- ↑ Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond, Who, Where and When: The History & Constitution of the University of Glasgow (University of Glasgow, 2001), pp. 116-117.
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