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Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1986
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Prepared by the District of Columbia Historical Records Survey Division of Community Service Programs Works project Administration
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Fourth edition revised and enlarged
New York: G. Schirmer, 1940
Mathews, William Smith Babcock
A hundred years of music in America
An account of musical effort in America
Eliot, Samuel A.
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