all 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