Introduction

Biography

George was the son of George Board­man Gow and Lu­cy Ann Mars­ton, and hus­band of Grace D. Ches­ter (mar­ried 1901).

His ear­ly edu­ca­tion was in the pub­lic schools of Wor­ces­ter, Mas­sa­chu­setts, and at the Wor­ces­ter Aca­de­my. He gra­du­at­ed from the Pitts­field, Mas­sa­chu­setts School of Mu­sic (1880); Brown Uni­ver­si­ty, Pro­vi­dence, Rhode Is­land (1884); and the New­ton Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry (1889).

Gow taught har­mo­ny and coun­ter­point at Smith Col­lege, North­amp­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts; stu­died in Ber­lin, Ger­ma­ny (1892–93); and was head of the Mu­sic De­part­ment at Vass­ar Col­lege, Pough­keep­sie, New York (1895–1932).

Works

• A Text-Book on Har­mo­ny (North­amp­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ga­zette Print­ing, 1892)
• The Struc­ture of Mu­sic No­ta­tion and Har­mo­ny, 1895