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| Finding democracy in music R Adlington, E Buch Routledge, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
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| Tuning in and Dropping Out: The Disturbance of the Dutch Premiere of Stockhausen's Stimmung R Adlington Music and Letters 90 (1), 94-112, 2009 | 7 | 2009 |
