Essentials in Conducting/Appendix A

by Karl Wilson Gehrkens

APPENDIX A

Reference List

I. General:

Berlioz, The Orchestral Conductor. A short treatise full of practical suggestions. It is found in the back of the author's well-known volume on Orchestration.

Weingartner, On Conducting. A small volume of about seventy-five pages, but containing excellent material for both amateur and professional.

Schroeder, Handbook of Conducting. A practical little book from the standpoint of both orchestral and operatic directing.

Wagner, On Conducting. A short treatise that every professional conductor will wish to read, but not of much value to the amateur.

Mees, Choirs and Choral Music. A well-written account of the history of choral music from the time of the Hebrews and Greeks down to the present, containing also an excellent chapter on the Chorus Conductor.

Grove, Dictionary of Music and Musicians (article, Conducting).

Henderson, What Is Good Music? (chapters XIII and XVII).

Krehbiel, How to Listen to Music (chapter VIII).

II. Interpretation:

Coward, Choral Technique and Interpretation. One of the few really significant books on conducting. The author gives in a clear and practical way the principles on which his own successful work as a choral conductor was based. Matthay, Musical Interpretation. A book for the musician in general, rather than for the conductor specifically; an excellent treatise and one that all musicians should read.

III. The Orchestra:

Lavignac, Music and Musicians (chapter II).

Mason, The Orchestral Instruments and What They Do.

Corder, The Orchestra and How to Write for It.

Prout, The Orchestra (two volumes).

Kling, Modern Orchestration and Instrumentation.

Henderson, The Orchestra and Orchestral Music; contains two chapters (XII and XIII) on the Orchestral Conductor that will be of great interest to the amateur.

Mason (Editor), The Art of Music (Vol. VIII).

Stoeving, The Art of Violin Bowing.

Forsyth, Orchestration. A particularly good book both for professional and amateur, as it gives many illustrations and treats the various instruments from an historical as well as a practical standpoint.

Widor, The Modern Orchestra.

IV. The Church Choir:

Curwen, Studies in Worship Music (two volumes).

Dickinson, Music in the History of the Western Church.

Helmore, Primer of Plainsong.

Pratt, Musical Ministries in the Church.

V. The Boy Choir:

Bates, Voice Culture for Children.

Brown and Behnke, The Child Voice.

Howard, The Child Voice in Singing.

Johnson, The Training of Boys' Voices.

Richardson, The Choir Trainer's Art.

Stubbs, Practical Hints on Boy Choir Training.

VI. Voice Training:

Ffrangçon-Davies, The Singing of the Future.

Fillebrown, Resonance in Singing and Speaking.

Greene, Interpretation in Song.

Henderson, The Art of the Singer.

Russell, English Diction for Singers and Speakers.

Withrow, Some Staccato Notes for Singers.

VII. Miscellaneous:

Hamilton, Outlines of Music History.

Hamilton, Sound and Its Relation to Music.