"I do not want to study piano!" Early predictors of student dropout behavior

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education

Volumn , Issue 161-162, 2004, Pages 57-64

  Costa Giomi, Eugenia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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