CONDUCTING BIBLIOGRAPHY

EUGENE CORPORON UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

JACK STAMP INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
I. TECHNIQUE
Bakaleinikoff, Vladimir. Elementary Rules of Conducting. New York: Belwin, Inc., 1938.
Bamberger, Carl. The Conductors Art. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1965.
Berlioz, Hector, The Orchestral Conductor: Theory of His Art, trans. John Broadhouse.
London: William Reeves, 1936.
Blackman, Charles, Behind the Baton. New York: Charos Enterprises, Inc., 1964.
Boulez, Pierre. Notes of an Apprenticeship. New York: Knopf, 1960.
Boult, Adrian C. A Handbook on the Technique of Conducting. Oxford, England: Hall the
Printer, Ltd., 1936.
Boult, Adrian C. Boult on Music. Thetford, Norfolk: Toccata Press, 1983
Boult, Adrian C. Thoughts on Conducting. London: J. M. Dent, Phoenix House, 1963.
Bowles, Michael. The Art of Conducting. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1959.
Braithwaite, Warwick. The Conductor's Art. London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1952.
Dolmetsch, Rudolph. The Art of Orchestral Conducting. Illustrated by T. L. Poulton. London:
Bosworth, 1942.
Earhart, Will. The Eloquent Baton. New York: M. Whitmark and Sons, 1931.
Ewen, David. The Man with the Baton. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1936.
Goldbeck, Frederick. The Perfect Conductor: Listening to Music with your Eye. New York:
Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1951.
Green, Elizabeth. The Modern Conductor. New York: Prentice Hall, 1969.
Grosbayne, Benjamin. Techniques of Modern Orchestral Conducting. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1956.
Hawkes, F. G. Studies in Time and Tempo: A Handbook for Conductors. London: The
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Salvationist Publishing Company, 1936.

Hoesen, Karl van. Handbook of Conducting. New York: F. S. Crofts and Co., 1944.
Kahn, Emil. Conducting. New York: The Free Press, 1965.
Krueger, Karl. The Way of the Conductor, His Origins and Procedures. New York: Scribner's,
1958.
Malko, Nicolai. The Conductor and His Baton. Copenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen Verlag, 1950.
Marple, Hugo. The Beginning Conductor. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1972.
McElheran, Brock. Conducting Technique for Beginners and Professionals. London: Oxford
University Press, 1966.
Otterstein, Adolph. The Baton in Motion. New York: Carl Fischer, Inc., 1940.
Prausnitz, Frederik. Score and Podium. New York: WW Norton and Company, 1983.
Rudolph, Max. The Grammar of Conducting. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1950.
Scherchen, Hermann. Handbook of Conducting. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.
Schmid, Adolf. The Language of the Baton.

New York: G. Schirmer, 1937.

Schroeder, Carl. Handbook of Conducting. London: Augener, 1889.

Schuller, Gunther. The Compleat Conductor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Van Hoesen, Karl. Handbook of Conducting. New York: F. S. Crofts & Co. , 1944.

II. BY OR ABOUT CONDUCTORS

Ames, Evelyn. A Wind from the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.
Antek, Samuel. This Was Toscanini. New York: Vanguard Press, 1963.
Atkins, Harold and Newman, Archie. Beecham Stories. London: Warner Books, 1978.
Bachmann, Robert C. Karajan: Notes on a Career. London: Quarter Books, 1990.
Barenboim, Daniel. A Life in Music. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1991
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Beecham, Sir Thomas. A Mingled Chime. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1943.

Blaukopf, Kurt. Great Conductors, trans. Miriam Blaukopf. London: Arco Publications, 1955.
Brook, Donald. International Gallery of Conductors. London: Barrie and Rockcliff, 1951.
Busch, Fritz. Pages from a Musician's Life, tr. E. Strachey. London: Hogarth Press.
Carse, Adam. Orchestral Conducting. London: Augener, 1929.
Damrosch, Walter. My Musical Life. New York: G. Schirmer, 1923.
Ewen, David. Dictators of the Baton. Chicago: Alliance Book Corp., 1943.
Fifield, Christopher. True Artist and True Friend, A Biography of Hans Richter. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1993.
Furtwangler, Wilhelm. Collected Essays, tr. L. A. Fenn. London: John Calder, 1967.
Furtwangler, Wilhelm. Concerning Music, tr. L. J. Lawrence. London: Boosey and Hawkes,
1953.
Furtwangler, Wilhelm. Notebooks: 1924-54. London: Quartet Books, 1995.
Gattey, Charles Neilson. Peacocks on the Podium. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1982.
Gelatt, Roland. Music Makers. New York: Knopf, 1953.
Gillis, Donald, ed. Furtwangler Recalled: A Symposium. Zurcih: Atlantis and Tuckahoe,
New York: de Graff, 1965.
Gradenwitz, Peter. Leonard Bernstein. New York: Berg Publishers Limited, 1987.
Haggin, B.H. Arturo Toscanini. New York: Da Capo Press, 1959.
Haggin, B. H. Conversations with Toscannini. New York: Horizon Press, 1979.
Hart, Philip. Conductors, A New Generation. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1979.

Hart, Philip. Fritz Reiner: A Biography. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1994.
Heyworth, Peter, ed. Conversations with Klemperer. London/Boston: Faber and Faber, 1973.
Horowitz, Joseph. Understanding Toscannini. New York: Alfred Knopf, Inc., 1987.
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In Celebration of Richard Lert. Pasadena: Pasadena Symphony Association, 1965.

Kennedy, Michael. Barbirolli. Great Britain: Granada Publishing Limited, 1971.
Kenyon, Nicholas. Simon Rattle: The Making of a Conductor. London: Faber & Faber,1987.
Klemperer, Otto. Minor Recollections, tr. J. Maxwell. London: Brownjohn, 1964.
Leichtentritt, Hugo. Serge Koussevitzsky. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1946.
Leinsdorf, Erich. Cadenza, A Musical Career. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
Leinsdorf, Erich. Erich Leinsdorf on Music. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1997.
Leinsdorf, Erich. The Composer's Advocate. New Haven and London: Yale University Press,
1981.
Mahler, Alma. Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters, tr. Basil Creighton. London: J. Murray,
1946.
Matheopoulos, Helena. Maestro. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.
Munch, Charles, I Am A Conductor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.
Opperby, Preben. Leopold Stokowski. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1982.
Peyser, Joan. Bernstein. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987.
Reis, Claire R. Composers, Conductors, and Critics. Detroit: Oxford University Press, 1955.
Robinson, Paul. Stokowski. London: Lester and Orpen Limited, 1977.
Robinson, Paul. Solti. New York: Vanguard Press, Inc., 1979.
Ruttencutter, Helen Drees. Previn. New York: St. Martins/Marek, 1985.
Sachs, Harvey. Reflections on Toscannini. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.
Schoenberg, Harold. The Great Conductors. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.
Shirakawa, Sam H., The Devils Music Master. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1992.
Stoddard, Hope. Symphony Conductors of the U.S.A. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1957.
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Thomas, Michael Tilson. Michael Tilson Thomas: Viva Voce. London: Faber & Faber, 1994.
Trotter, William. Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press,
1995.
Vermeil, Jean. Conversations with Boulez: Thoughts on Conducting. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus
Press, 1996.
Vaughn, Roger. Herbert Von Karajan. New York: WW Norton and Company, 1986.
Wagar, Jeannine. Conductors in Conversation. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., 1991.
Weingartner, Felix. On Music and Conducting; Three Essays, tr. By Newman, Crosland, and
Schott. New York: Dover Publications, 1969.
Weingartner, Felix. Buffets and Rewards, tr. M. Wolff. London: Hutchinson, 1937.
Walter, Bruno. Theme and Variations: An Autobiography, tr. J. A. Galston. New York:
Knopf,
1946.
Whiting, Chester Earl. The Baton and the Pendulum. Clearfield, Pa: Kurtz Bros., 1963.
Wood, Sir Henry. My Life in Music. London: Victor Gollancz, 1938.
Wooldridge, David. Conductor's World. New York: Praeger, 1970.

IV. PHILOSOPHY-AESTHETICS
Bayles, David and Orland, Ted. Art and Fear. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1997.
Dewey, John. Art as Experience. New York: Capricorn Books, 1958.
Fuchs, Peter Paul. The Psychology of Conducting. New York: MCA Music Inc., 1969.
Keirsey, David and Bates, Marilyn. Please Understand Me: Character and Temperment Types.
Prometheus Nemesis Books, Del Mar, CA, 1978.
Langer, Susanne. Feeling and Form. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1953.
Langer, Susanne. Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press,
1965.
Langer, Susanne. Philosophy in a New Key. New York: Mentor Books, 1942.
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Langer, Susanne. Problems of Art. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1957.
Langer, Susanne, ed. Reflections on Art. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press.
Meyer, Leonard. Emotion and Meaning in Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
Reimer, Bennett. A Philosophy of Music Education. Prentice Hall, 1970.
Ristad, Eloise. A Soprano on Her Head. Moab, Utah: Real People Press, 1982.
Seashore, Carl E. Psychology of Music. New York, McGraw Hill Book Co., Inc., 1938.
Storr, Anthony. Music and the Mind. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
Stravinsky, Igor, and Robert Craft.

Themes and Episodes. New York: Knopf, 1966.

Walter, Bruno. Of Music and Music Making. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1961.

V. ANALYSIS/INTERPRETATION
Barra, Donald. The Dynamic Performance "A Performance Guide to Musical Expression and
Interpretation". Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1983.
Battisti, Frank and Garafalo, Robert. Guide to Score Study. Ft. Lauderdale: Meredith Music
Publications, 1990.
Blum. David. Casals and the Art of Interpretation. University of California Press, Berkeley
and Los Angeles, 1977.
Brindle, Reginald Smith. Serial Composition. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Boretz, Benjamin and Edward T. Cone, ed. Perspectives on Contemporary Music
Theory. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972.
Bussler Ludwig. The Theory and Practice of Musical Form. Ed. J. H. Cornell.
New York: G. Schirmer, 1883.
Cage, John. Notations. New York: Something Else Press, 1969.
Cooper, G. W. and Leonard B. Meyer. The Rhythmic Structure of Music. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 1960.
Cope, David. New Directions in Music. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Co.,
1971.
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Crocker, Richard. A History of Musical Style. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co.,
Inc., 1966.
Demaree, Robert and Moses, Don. The Complete Conductor. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall,
1995.
Dart, Thurston. The Interpretation of Music. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
Dolmetsch, Arnold. The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Washington: University of Washington Press, 1969.
Dorian, Frederick. The History of Music in Performance. New York: W. W. Norton
and Co., Inc., 1966.
Fishback, Horace. A Handbook of Musical Style. Teaneck, New Jersey: Farleigh
Dickinson University, 1966.
Green, Elizabeth. Orchestral Bowings and Routines. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann
Arbor Publishers, 1957.
Green, Elizabeth/Malko. The Conductor and His Score. New York: Prentice Hall,
1978.
Jacob, Gordon. How to Read a Score. London: Hawkes and Son, 1944.
Jacobson, Bernard. Conductors on Conducting. Frenchtown, NJ: Columbia Publishing Co. Inc., 1979.
Keller, Herman. Phrasing and Articulation. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1973.
LaRue, Jan. Guidelines for Style Analysis. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1970.
Matthay, Tobias. Musical Interpretation. Boston: Boston Music Co., Inc., 1913.
Moore, Douglas. A Guide to Musical Styles. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1970.
Rood, Louise. How to Read a Score. New York: Edwin F. Kalmus, Inc., 1948.
Sachs, Curt. Rhythm and Tempo. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1953.
Schoenberg, Arnold. Style and Idea. New York: Philosophical Library Inc., 1950.
Thurmond, James Morgan. Note Grouping, (A Method for Achieving Expression and
Style in Musical Performance). Pennsylvania: JMT Publications, 1982.
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Wallace, Berry. Form in Music. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1966.
Weisberg, Arthur. The Art of Wind Playing. New York: Schirmer Books, 1975.
VI. DICTIONARIES/RESOURCES
Apel, Willi. Harvard Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of
Harvard Univeristy, 1973.
Carse, Adam. Musical Wind Instruments. London: Da Capo Press, 1939.
Cipolla, Frank J. and Hunsberger, Donald. The Wind Ensemble and Its Repertoire. Rochester, New
York: University of Rochester Press, 1994.
Davies, J. H. Musicalia-Sources of Information on Music. London: Pergamon Press, 1969.
Duckles, Vincent. Music Reference and Research Materials. New York: The Free Press, 1967.
Miles, Richard, ed. Teaching Music through Performance in Band Vol. 1. Chicago: GIA Publications,
Inc., 1998.
Miles, Richard, ed. Teaching Music through Performance in Band Vol. 2. Chicago: GIA Publications,
Inc., 1998.
Sachs, Curt. The History of Musical Instruments. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1940.
Slonimsky, Nicolas. Bakers Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York: Schirmer,
1971.
Slonimsky, Nicolas. Lectionary of Music. New York: McGraw Hill, 1989.
Slonimsky, Nicolas, ed. The Lexicon of Musical Invective. Washington: University of
Washington Press, 1965.
Watanabe, Ruth T. Introduction to Music Research. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1967.
White, Eric Walter. Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1966.

VII. NOTATION
Bartolozzi, Bruno. New Sounds for Woodwind. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Cope, David. New Music Composition. New York: Schirmer Books, 1977.
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Koenig, Ruth. Notation in Music. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1972.
Nallin, Walter. The Musical Idea. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1966

VIII. HISTORY AND LITERATURE

Adkins, H. E. Treatise on the Military Band. Rockville Center, New York: Belwin, Inc., 1945.
Adolphe, Bruce. What to Listen for in the World. New York: Limelight Editions, 1996.
Berger, Kenneth. The March King and His Band: The Story of John Philip Sousa. New York:
Exposition Press, Inc., 1957.
Bierly, Paul E. John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon. New York: Appleton-CenturyCrofts/New Century, 1975.
Bierly, Paul E. John Philip Sousa: A Descriptive Catalog of His Works. Urbana, Illinois Press,
1973.
Casey, Joseph L. Teaching Techniques and Insights. Chicago: GIA Publications, 1991.
Clappe, A. A. The Wind Band and Its Instruments. New York: Milford House, 1911.
Elliot, David J. Music Matters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Farmer, H. G. Military Music. New York: Chanticleer Press, Inc., 1950.
Farmer, H. G. The Rise and Development of Military Music. London: W. Reeves, 1912.
Fennell, Frederick. Time and the Winds: A Short History of the Use of Wind Instruments in the
Orchestra, Band, and the Wind Ensemble. Kenosha, Wisconsin: G. LeBlanc Corp.,
1954.
Gallo, Stanislao. The Modern Band: A Treatise on Wind Instruments, Symphony Band, and
Military Band. Boston, Ass.: C. C. Birchard and Co., 1935.
Goldman, Edwin Franco. Band Betterment. New York: Carl Fischer Inc., 1934.
Goldman, Edwin Franco. The Band's Music. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1938.
Goldman, Richard. The Concert Band. New York: Rinehart Press, 1946.
Goldman, Richard. The Wind Band. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1961
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Graham, Alberta. Great Bands of America. New York: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1951.
Green, Barry. The Inner Game of Music. New York: Doubleday, 1986.
Griffiths, S. C. The Military Band. London: Rudall, Carte, 1896.
Instrumentalist Co., Band Music Guide. Evanston, Illinois: Instrumentalist Co., 1975.
Kreines, Joseph. Band Music Handbook: A Selective Guide to Band Literature.
Tampa, Florida: Florida Music Service, 1972.
Lebrecht, Norman, The Maestro Myth. New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1991.
Iingg, Ann. John Philip Sousa. Boston, Mass: Milford House, 1954.
Mullins, Shirley Strohm. Motivation, Confrontation, and Inspiration. Northfield, Illinois: The
Instrumentalist Publishing Company, 1997.
Mullins, Shirley Strohm. Teaching Music: The Human Experience. Hopedale, MA: Boston Music
Co., 1989.
Norcross, Brian H. One Band That Took a Chance. Ft. Lauderdale: Meredith Music Publications, 1994.
Renshaw, Jeffrey. The American Wind Symphony Commissioning Project. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1991.
Reynolds, H. Robert. Wind Ensemble Literature. Madison, Wisconsin, 1975.
Schwartz, N. W. Bands of America. Garden City, New York: Double Day and Co., Inc., 1957.
Sousa, John Philip. Marching Along. New York: Vienna House, Inc., 1928.
Voxman, Himie, and Merriman, Lyle. Woodwind Ensemble Music Guide. Evanston, Illinois:
The Instrumentalist Co., 1975.
Weerts, Richard K. Original Manuscript Music for Wind and Percussion Instruments.
Washington D.C.: MENC, 1973.
White, W. C. A History of Military Music in America. New York: Exposition Press, Inc.,
1944.
Whitwell, David. A New History of Wind Music. Evanston, Illinois: Instrumentalist Co., 1972.
Whitwell, David. Band Music of the French Revolution. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1979.
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Whitwell, David, Ostling, Acton. The College and University Band. Reston, Virginia: MENC,
1977.
Wright, Al. G., and Newcomb, Stanley. Bands of the World. Evanston, Illinois:
Instrumentalist Co., 1970.

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