Project Gutenberg's Essentials in Conducting, by Karl Wilson Gehrkens

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Essentials in Conducting

Author: Karl Wilson Gehrkens

Release Date: August 25, 2007 [EBook #22392]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ESSENTIALS IN CONDUCTING ***

Produced by David Newman, Chuck Greif, Linda Cantoni, and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net.

[Transcriber's Note: In this e-book, a macron over a character is
represented with an equal sign, thus: [=e].

The character ' is used to denote musical octaves, e.g., a' denotes A
above middle C.]

ESSENTIALS

IN

CONDUCTING

BY

KARL WILSON GEHRKENS, A.M.

PROFESSOR OF SCHOOL MUSIC
OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
AUTHOR OF "MUSIC NOTATION AND TERMINOLOGY"

$1.75

[Illustration]

BOSTON
OLIVER DITSON COMPANY

NEW YORK
CHAS. H. DITSON & CO.

CHICAGO
LYON & HEALY

LONDON
WINTHROP ROGERS, Ltd.

MADE IN U.S.A.

_Copyright MCMXIX_
By OLIVER DITSON COMPANY
_International Copyright Secured_

To the Memory of

ROBERT C. BEDFORD

for many years

SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

of

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE

CONTENTS

Page

CHAPTER I--Introduction 1

CHAPTER II--Personal Traits Necessary in Conducting 8

CHAPTER III--The Technique of the Baton 20

CHAPTER IV--Interpretation in Conducting--_Introductory_ 36

CHAPTER V--Interpretation in Conducting--_Tempo_ 46

CHAPTER VI--Interpretation in Conducting--_Dynamics_ 57

CHAPTER VII--Interpretation in Conducting--_Timbre, Phrasing, etc._ 64

CHAPTER VIII--The Supervisor of Music as Conductor 76

CHAPTER IX--The Community Chorus Conductor 85

CHAPTER X--The Orchestral Conductor 93

CHAPTER XI--Directing the Church Choir 108

CHAPTER XII--The Boy Choir and its Problems 118

CHAPTER