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Appendices
Biographical note
Keith Johnston teaches music history at Western University, Canada. His article on the practice of humour in the early comic intermezzo is forthcoming in Music & Letters, and he has recently published shorter pieces in the Western News and News & Notes. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto in 2011.
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