Thomson, Virgil - references Jackson, Richard. "Virgil Thomson." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie. 20 vols. London: Macmillan and Co., 1980, 18: 786-89. [Jackson surveys Thomson's life and discusses his basic style, the variety of his works, his early use of Gregorian chant and modal polyphony, etc.] 11/88