Beat It!

This is an easy to read guide to conducting, which can be read by an absolute beginner, or by the already proficient conductor who would like to submit his conducting to a check up. Alan Tongue, the author, was a conducting student of two great conductors, Sergiu Celibidache and Robert Shaw, and devotes many pages to outlining their own hints on conducting. Tongue himself had a good career conducting around the world, and also much experience in teaching individual conducting students.