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- Alps, Tim. 1980. "Concerto: Modern". Music and Musicians 28 (January): 66.
- Heyman, Barbara B. 1992. Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Heyman, Barbara. 2012. Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983795-3.
- Simmons, Walter. 1981. "Barber: Essay No. 3". Fanfare 4 (May–June): 49–50.
- Simmons, Walter. 2004. Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-romantic Composers. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-4884-9
- Taylor, Benedict. "Nostalgia and Cultural Memory in Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915". The Journal of Musicology 25, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 211–29.
Footnotes
- ↑ "Mrs. J. H. Wickersham Entertain at a Tea". New York Times (May 22, 1951). p. 36.
- ↑ Heyman 1992, pp. 498–9; Heyman 2012, p. 468.
- ↑ Ericson, Raymond. 1978. "Mehta Plans Barber Premiere to Open Philharmonic Season". The New York Times (March 14, 1978). p. 30.
- ↑ "Deaths". New York Times (April 23, 1978). p. 36.
- ↑ Phillips, Julie. 2006. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 978-0-312-42694-1.
- ↑ Heyman 1992, pp. 502–3; Heyman 2012, p. 468.
- 1 2 Ramey, Phillip. 1981. "A Talk with Samuel Barber". In John Corigliano: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra; Samuel Barber: Third Essay for Orchestra, Op. 47. Stanley Drucker, clarinet; New York Philharmonic; Zubin Mehta, cond. LP recording, 1 disc: 12 inch, 33⅓ rpm, stereo. Recorded Anthology of American Music. New World Records NW 309. Liner notes, 3–4. p. 4.
- ↑ "Third Essay | Samuel Barber - Wise Music Classical".
