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References
- ↑ Contemporary Composers, ed. Brian Morton and Pamela Collins, Chicago and London: St. James Press, 1992 - ISBN 1-55862-085-0
- ↑ Anthony Burgess, This Man And Music, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982 - ISBN 0-07-008964-7
- ↑ quoted in Crinson, Mark (2003). Modern Architecture and the End of Empire. Ashgate Publishing. p. 228. ISBN 0-7546-3510-4. page 161
- ↑ Phillips, Paul (1999). "The Music of Anthony Burgess". Anthony Burgess Newsletter. The Anthony Burgess Centre, University of Angers . Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ↑ Music 1954-59, International Anthony Burgess Foundation Archived April 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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