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References
- ↑ Mead 1997, p. 117.
- ↑ Colson 2012, p. 2.
Sources
- Colson, Daniel (Spring 2012). "The Babbittian Question". Music Theory Spectrum . 34 (1): 2–4. doi:10.1525/mts.2012.34.1.2.
- Mead, Andrew W. (Summer 1997). "Still Being an American Composer: Milton Babbitt at Eighty". Perspectives of New Music . 35 (2): 101–126. doi:10.2307/833645. JSTOR 833645.
