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- ↑ Kimball, Carol (2006), Song, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard, p. 345, ISBN 1-4234-1280-X, OCLC 225969165
- ↑ Clare, John (2010), Interview with Daron Hagen (video recording), San Antonio: Texas Public Radio
- 1 2 3 4 Hagen, Daron,The Antient Concert Archived 2012-04-21 at the Wayback Machine , Notes: a Composer's Life, 31 January 2011
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- ↑ Obert, Julia C. (2011), "Paul Muldoon: Becoming Opera", Éire-Ireland, 46 (3): 252–276, doi:10.1353/eir.2011.0014, S2CID 161928852
