Luther Whiting Mason, international music educator

By Sondra Wieland Howe

Subjects: Biography, Music teachers

Description: Luther Whiting Mason was a nineteenth-century educator who made major contributions to music education in America and Japan by promoting the teaching of music for young children, developing teacher training programs, creating the first graded series of music textbooks in Japan, and by heading a committee in Germany that published Neue Gesangschule, based on his National Music Course. - Publisher.