Luther Whiting Mason

Luther Whiting Mason ( born April 3, 1818 in Turner / Maine; † July 14, 1896 in Buckfield / Maine) was an American music educator.

Mason studied at the Boston Academy of Music, Lowell Mason, George Root and William Bradbury were among his teachers, two years at Gardner Lyceum and one year at Delaware College in Newark. From 1844 to 1853 he lived in Baltimore, where he led the choir of St. Timoty 's Episcopal Church and taught at the St. Timoty 's Hall and the Maryland Institute.

He was then a teacher in Louisville ( 1853-55 ), Cincinnati ( 1856-64 ) and Boston ( 1964-79 ), where he devoted himself to the promotion of school music lessons and a series of textbooks published, including Young Singer ( 1860), National Music Teacher (1871 ) and the three-volume National Music Course, one of the most important music education works of the time in the USA. He was influenced by the German music educators Christian Heinrich Hohmann, whose signature Practical Course of Instruction was published in 1856 Singing in English translation, and English music teacher Sarah Ann Glover, whose Tonic Sol Fa system he took over from John Curwen. Increasingly, underwent his work recognition, and his writings have been exhibited in Chicago at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876.

There he came in contact Shuzi Izawa, who studied in the United States on behalf of the Japanese Erziehungssministeriums school music education. In the mediation, he was invited to Japan in 1880 and taught at the Tokyo Normal School and Kindergarten Tokyo Normal School Woman. He was honored in Japan many times, gave concerts at the Imperial Court, was given a private audience with the Empress, an award from the University of Tokyo and became imperial counselor. His songs for Japanese texts were known as the Mason - song.

1882 Mason returned to Europe back to the U.S.. There he revised his National Music Course, which was published in a new edition in 1885. From 1888 to 1892 he lived in Germany. Here he studied in particular the training of the Berlin Cathedral Choir under the direction of Albert Becker and the school music teaching in Leipzig. In 1891 he gave a lecture at the meeting of the Leipzig Music Teachers Association. From 1893 he taught at the Emma A. Thomas School in Detroit. In 1894 he learned Osbourne McConathy know, to whom he had bedeutenfden influence and one of the important music educators of the 20th century.

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  • James A. Keene: " Giants of Music Education 1" Glenbridge Publishing Ltd, 2010, ISBN 9780944435687, pp. 27-43.
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  • Bolyn G. Hall: "The American Education of Luther Whiting Mason " in American Music, Vol 6, No. 1 ( Spring, 1988), pp. 65-73
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  • Alliance Publications, Inc. - M - Mason, Luther Whiting
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  • Born in 1818
  • Died in 1896
  • Music teacher
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