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References
- ↑ White, Eric Walter (1979). Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works (2nd ed.). Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press. pp. 468–9. ISBN 0-520-03985-8.
- ↑ Auden, W.H.; Pearson, Norman Holmes, eds. (1950). Poets of the English Language. 5 vols. New York City: Viking. 1:426–31.
- ↑ Falby, Vern Clifford. 1987. "Music in and out of Words: Music, Language, and Stravinsky's Vocal Works of 1948–54. Ph.D. diss. College Park: University of Maryland. p. 319.
