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- ↑ Robin Stowell (10 December 1992). The Cambridge Companion to the Violin . Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. pp. 189. ISBN 978-0-521-39923-4 . Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ↑ [quoted in] Andrea Olmstead (6 August 2012). Roger Sessions: A Biography. Routledge. p. 440. ISBN 978-0-415-97713-5 . Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ↑ Whitehouse, Richard (1999). Liner Notes to Bloch: Violin Sonatas Nºs 1 & 2/Suite Hebraique (CD). Naxos Records. 8.554460.
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