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- ↑ Cascade Music Publishing website catalogue
- ↑ Trinity College, London
- ↑ Music Web International
- ↑ 65 years of Printmaking by Eric James Mellon, ISBN 0-948765-21-6 p121 & 125
- ↑ Catholic Online 28 January 2010 par.7
- ↑ Richard Nye's official website
- ↑ Tutti
