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- ↑ Layton, Billy Jim. "Italian Music for the Ordinary of the Mass, 1300-1450." Ph.D. dissertation: Harvard University, 1960
- ↑ Facchin, Francesco. "Stili Vaganti!" in Zimei, Francesco, editor, Antonio Zacara da Teramo e il suo tempo (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2004 [i.e., 2005]). pp. 359–81.
- ↑ Cuthbert, Michael Scott. "Trecento Fragments and Polyphony beyond the Codex." Ph.D. dissertation: Harvard University, 2006. Chp. 2.
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