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- 1 2 3 "Notes to a CD Recording of Sessions' Symphony No. 8" . Retrieved 21 December 2009.
- ↑ "(Principal) Works", The Roger Sessions Society. Accessed: Aug. 18, 2015.
- ↑ Olmstead, Andrea (2012). Roger Sessions: A Biography, p.356. Routledge. ISBN 9781135868925.
- ↑ Olmstead (2012), p.363.
- ↑ "Sessions: Symphony No. 8", Edward B. Marks Music Company: Classical (publisher's website, accessed 26 August 2015).
