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1 Don L. Collins, Teaching Choral Music, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall,
1999), 304.
2 The survey was distributed to GMEA choral adjudicators
in October and November 2023 to support the content
of this article.
3 Michele Holt and James Jordan, The School Choral Program
(GIA Publications, Inc., 2008), 186.
4 Barbara A. Brinson and Steven M. Demorest, Choral Mu-

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