Introduction

Biography

Hamilton at­tend­ed Brown Uni­ver­si­ty (BA 1888, AM 1900, Phi Be­ta Kap­pa).

He taught at a pri­vate pre­pa­ra­to­ry school in Pro­vi­dence (1888–89), and taught mu­sic in Pro­vi­dence, chief­ly pi­ano and the­ory (1889–1904).

As of 1930, he was chair of the mu­sic de­part­ment at Well­es­ley Col­lege.

He was or­gan­ist and choir di­rect­or at se­ver­al church­es, con­trib­ut­ed ar­ti­cles to va­ri­ous mu­sic­al jour­nals, and was sec­re­ta­ry of the North­east Chap­ter, Am­er­ican Guild of Or­gan­ists.

Works

• Outlines of Mu­sic His­to­ry (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son, 1908)
• Music Ap­pre­ci­a­tion, Based up­on Meth­ods of Li­ter­ary Cri­ti­cism
• The School Cre­dit Pi­ano Course for the Sys­tem­a­tic Train­ing of Ears, Fin­gers and Mind in Pi­ano Play­ing and Mu­si­cian­ship, with John Pat­ton Mar­shall & Per­cy Goet­schi­us, 1919
• Outlines of Mu­sic The­o­ry, 1924
• Piano Mu­sic: Its Com­pos­ers and Char­ac­ter­is­tics (New York: Ol­iv­er Dit­son, 1925)
• Epochs in Mu­sic­al Pro­gress (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son, cir­ca 1926)
• Sound and Its Re­la­tion to Mu­sic
• Piano Teach­ing: Its Prin­ci­ples and Prob­lems