子供の頃から音楽に特別な興味を持つ。彼はジョージア州サヴァンナで15年生活し、銀行員として働いたが、同時に本当に愛すること――音楽も続けていた。F. I. Abelのもとで学び、始めていた作曲の技術も向上させた。彼の初期の作品は、フィラデルフィアやボストンの多くの出版社には断られ、ようやく1822年に、彼の生地であるマサチューセッツ州ボストンのヘンデル・ハイドン協会で認めてもらえた。しかし、その作品集にはMasonの名前もつけられなかった。
Masonはボストンでアメリカの公立学校の最初の音楽教師になった。1833年、彼はボストン音楽アカデミーの共同創設者となり，1838年にはボストン学校制度全体の音楽監督者となった。Lowell Masonは1,600曲以上の宗教音楽を書き、しばしばアメリカの教会音楽の父と呼ばれる。彼の著作は以下のようなものを含む。 Church Psalmody, with David Greene (Boston, Massachusetts: Perkins & Marvin, 1831) Manual of Christian Psalmody, with Rufus Babcock & David Greene (Boston, Massachusetts: Perkins & Marvin, 1832) The Choir, or Union Collection of Church Music, 1832 Union Hymns, with Rufus Babcock, Jr. (Boston, Massachusetts: 1834) The Sacred Harp or Eclectic Harmony, with his brother Timothy B. Mason (Cincinnati, Ohio: Truman & Smith, 1835) Spiritual Songs for Social Worship, with Thomas Hastings (Utica, New York: Gardiner Tracy, 1835) The Sacred Harp or Eclectic Harmony, with Timothy B. Mason (Cincinnati, Ohio: Truman & Smith, 1835) Sabbath School Harp (Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1836) The Sabbath School Harp, second edition (Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1837) The Modern Psalmist (Boston, Massachusetts: John Hubbard Wilkins & Richard B. Carter, 1839) Sabbath School Songs (Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1841) Chapel Hymns (Boston, Massachusetts: T. R. Marvin, 1842) Church Psalmody (Boston, Massachusetts: T. R. Marvin, 1843) The American Sabbath School Singing Book (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Perkins & Purves, 1843) Carmina Sacra: or Boston Collection of Church Music (Boston, Massachusetts: John Hubbard Wilkins & Richard B. Carter, 1844) The Psaltery (Boston, Massachusetts: Wilkins, Carter & Company, 1845) Song-Book of the School Room, with George James (Boston, Massachusetts: Wilkins, Carter & Company, 1847) The National Psalmist (Boston, Massachusetts: Tappan, Whittemore & Mason, 1848) Cantica Laudis: or The American Book of Church Music, with George Webb (New York: Mason & Law, 1850) Musical Letters from Abroad (Boston, Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson, 1853) The New Carmina Sacra (Boston, Massachusetts: Rice and Kendall, 1853) The Hallelujah: A Book for the Service of Song in the House of the Lord (New York: Mason Brothers, circa 1854) The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book, with Edwards A. Park & Austin Phelps (New York: Mason Brothers, 1859) The Sabbath School Hymn and Tune Book, with Edward A. Park, Austin Phelps & Francis Wayland (New York: Mason Brothers, 1860) The Diapason: A Collection of Church Music, edited by George Root (New York: Mason Brothers, 1860) Asaph: or, The Choir Book (New York: Mason Brothers, 1861
作品を含む出版物: Colles, Volume 3, p. 341 Findagrave, accessed 2 Jan 2018 Hall, pp. 17-19 Hughes, pp. 484-85 Jones, pp. 91-92 McCutchan, pp. 42-44 Metcalf, pp. 211-18 Nutter, p. 461 Randel, pp. 561-62 Stulken, p. 352 Wikipedia, accessed 20 Nov 2016
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