This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...It means in the second place that he must be a better conductor, must have more personal magnetism, must be more broadly trained than he frequently has been. And it means, finally, that he must be more conversant with modern educational aims, with present-day trend in secondary education, and with the courses offered ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...It means in the second place that he must be a better conductor, must have more personal magnetism, must be more broadly trained than he frequently has been. And it means, finally, that he must be more conversant with modern educational aims, with present-day trend in secondary education, and with the courses offered in his particular school. In addition to these factors, it will be necessary for the high school chorus director to study his material more carefully, so that in conducting he may be able to look at his singers most of the time, glancing at his music only occasionally. Weingartner has divided conductors into two classes, viz., first, those who have the score in their heads, and, second, those who have their heads in the score. There is no place for the second variety of conductor in a chorus composed of lively, wide-awake American boys and girls! 2. The next thing to be done in reforming the high school chorus is to have the music selected more carefully, and especially to have it planned from a broader standpoint of development. In most cases the teacher of music asks the pupils to sing from a book of miscellaneous material, and he usually makes his selections from this book in a haphazard way. If no book is used he ordinarily selects choruses from a list of supplementary music sent him by some publisher, but the decision to use any particular chorus is made in the same haphazard fashion. What kind of material is to be chosen naturally depends upon the nature of the chorus, whether it is elective or required, whether its members are to give a concert or are merely singing for the fun of it, whether the singers are good sight-readers or not, etc. No specific recommendation can be made, therefore, and I merely wish here to point out the necessit...
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Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering, lightly scuffed. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
