ABSTRACT
E. L. White was but twenty-one years old, and where he had been tarrying during his educational years is unknown, although it would appear that his formal studies had included music. E. L. White’s strong pedagogical inclinations are evident in well-organized drills in the “Rudiments of Music” which appear in a number of his compilations of sacred and secular music. Certain of White’s choral collections were occasionally advertised in Boston musical publications of the period, sometimes without mention of the editor’s name. During the 1840s a musical phenomenon began sweeping New England, the remarkable, melodious, and prolific Hutchinson Family. Some of the last of White’s publications were didactic in nature: The Seminary Class Book, Guitar Without a Master, Organ Without a Master, and his translation of the thoroughbass tutor of Friedrich Schneider, originally published as Elementarbuch der Harmonie and Tonsetzkunst in 1820.
