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Pietschmann, Klaus; Rozenski, Steven (2010), "Singing the Self: the
Autobiography of the fifteenth-century German Singer and Composer Johannes von Soest",
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Autobiography of the fifteenth-century German Singer and Composer Johannes von Soest",
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