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- ↑ Clements, Andrew (2022). "Claude Vivier weekend review – unruly and utterly distinctive". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ↑ Gilmore (2007), p. 15.
- ↑ Gilmore (2014), p. 25.
- ↑ Gilmore (2014), p. 282.
Sources
- Braes, Ross (2003). An Investigation of the Jeux De Timbres in Claude Vivier's Orion and His Other Instrumental Works of 1979–80. University of British Columbia Press.
- Gilmore, Bob (2007). "On Claude Vivier's Lonely Child". Tempo . New Series. 61 (239): 2–17. doi:10.1017/S0040298207000010.
- Gilmore, Bob (2014). Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life. University of Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1-58046-841-1.
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