[1] Article “Music,” in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
[2] Sir Hubert Parry, The Art of Music, p. 50.
[3] How to Listen to Music, p. 45.
[4] Such parchments as the “Angelus ad Virginem Hymn” (No. 284 Arundel MSS., Brit. Mus.); Hymn to St. Augustine (No. 572 Bodleian MSS., Oxford); and “Sumer is icumen in” (No. 678 Harleian Collection, Brit. Mus.), indisputably prove that in the tenth and eleventh centuries English musicians were hundreds of years in advance of Continental composers in polyphonic composition.—Ed.
[5] Sir Hubert Parry, Summary of Musical History, p. 54.
[6] Macfarren, article “Music,” Encyclopædia Britannica.
[7] Rimbault, Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Grove).
[8] British Musical Biography, p. 62.
[9] Monthly Musical Record, June 1902; article by C. Struthers.
[10] Preface to Musical Works of Frederick the Great. Breitkopf and Härtel.