Phillips, Wendell B2013-04-092013-04-0919491949b1481528xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2144/5298Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston UniversityThe problem of this study is to determine the status of the public school orchestras and bands in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York. This entails learning precisely the place of instrumental music in the curricula of the schools and to discover what is the relative importance given to the various phases of the program and to study the resulting balance.en-USBased on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictionsThesis/Dissertation