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horoughly and is able to conduct without looking at his music at all, and who can, therefore, keep things moving throughout the rehearsal period. We might add that if he does not keep things moving _musically_, the students in his chorus will keep them moving along other and probably less desirable lines! [Sidenote: SEATING THE HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS] Many other topics might be discussed in this chapter but the subject is too complex for adequate treatment except in a work dealing with this one subject alone. Let us, therefore, close the chapter by giving a plan for seating the high school chorus that has been found effective in various schools where it has been used. [Illustration: SEATING PLAN FOR A HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS -------------------------------------- Mezzo-soprano | Mezzo-soprano girls | girls singing soprano | singing alto ------------------+------------------- Girl | | Baritones | Girl Sopranos | Tenors | and | Altos ---------+ | Basses +------- Boy | | | Boy Sopranos | | | Altos ---------+--------+-----------+------- +--------+ +-----+ |Director| |Piano| +--------+ +-----+] The advantages of the plan given above are: 1. That it places the boys in front where their less developed voices and often smaller numbers will insure better balance,[23] and where also the teacher can more easily see what is going on in their midst. 2. It places all the boys in the same part of the room and thus removes the chief objection that boys with unchanged voices make to singing soprano and alto. There will probably not be a great number of these unchanged voices in any ordinary high school chorus, but there are almost certain to be a few, and these few should not be attempting to sing tenor or bass when their voice-range is still that of soprano or alto. 3. By placing the _mezzo_ voices (of which variety there are usually more than of any other) between the sopranos and altos, they can be used on either the soprano or alto part, as may be necessitated by the range and dynamic demands of the composition in hand. In seating these _mezzo-soprano_ girls the teacher may furthermore allow those who, although having _mezzo_ voices, prefer to sing the alto part, to sit
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