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- ↑ Goldman, Richard Franko (April 1957). "The Music of Elliott Carter". The Musical Quarterly. XLIII (2): 151–170. doi:10.1093/mq/xliii.2.151.
- ↑ Elliott Carter, Essay from The Orchestral Composer's Point of View (Essays on twentieth-century music by those who wrote it) (ed. Robert Stephan Hines). University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, Oklahoma), 1970 ( ISBN 0806108622).
- ↑ Whipple, Harold W. (Autumn 1981 – Summer 1982). "An Elliott Carter Discography". Perspectives of New Music. Perspectives of New Music. 20 (1/2): 169–181. doi:10.2307/942411. JSTOR 942411.
- ↑ Whittall, Arnold (March 2004). "Carter Symphony No 1; Piano Concerto: Elliott Carter makes his Naxos début with an ear-catching programme". Gramophone . Retrieved February 12, 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
