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Bedazzled by Breakthrough: Music Theology and the Problem of Composing Music in Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2011

Bennett Zon
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Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 136 , Issue 2 , 2011 , pp. 429 - 435
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