Excerpt from A Handbook on the Technique of Conducting This Handbook has been drawn up for members of the Conducting Class at the Royal College of Music. Its object is to place in the hands of students an essay on the underlying principles of the technique of conducting which have up to the present been explained to them verbally, and thus to provide a series Of texts for discussion on Wednesday after noons. For' this reason practically no examples have been quoted, and the language is telegraphic: perhaps a larger work may be called for when these notes have been well tested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.