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- 1 2 "Dreyfus, Prof. Laurence", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ↑ Greg Holt, "Remembering Thurston Dart", NEMA Newsletter , vol. 1, no. 2 (National Early Music Association UK, 2017), p. 12.
- ↑ "Parker, Prof. Roger Leslie", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 19 December 2019.