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