Between Research and Practice: How Choral Music Loses Boys in the "Middle"

Music Educators Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 28-34

  Freer, Patrick K ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 76649092081     PISSN: 00274321     EISSN: 19450087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002743210709400207     Document Type: Article

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