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- ↑ The last page of the score as published is signed with the date of completion.
- ↑ Opening of Elegy is quoted as example 6 in Imbrie. Imbrie, Andrew (1972). "The Symphonies of Roger Sessions". Tempo. New Series (103): 24–32. ISSN 0040-2982. JSTOR 943951. OCLC 1767255.
- ↑ Marks Music Corporation 1963 score.
- ↑ Helm, Everett (May 1960). "Reports from Abroad". Musical Times. Musical Times Publications Ltd. 101 (1407): 316–7. ISSN 0027-4666. OCLC 53165808.
- ↑ "Roger Sessions: Compositions" . Retrieved 23 May 2009.
- ↑ Prausnitz (2002), Roger Sessions: How a "Difficult" Composer Got That Way at Google Books; p. 281; Steinberg, Choral Masterworks at Google Books, p. 253.
- ↑ Badea's recording on New World;[ failed verification ] Marks Music score.[ failed verification ]
- ↑ Olmstead, Andrea (2012). Roger Sessions: A Biography, p.356. Routledge. ISBN 9781135868925.
