Howard Mayer Brown
Howard Mayer Brown (April 13, 1930 – February 20, 1993) was an American
musicologist
.
Brown obtained his BA from
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He served as president of the American Musicological Society
, 1978–80.
Brown's scholarship covered a wide range of subjects. He published on the music of the Renaissance, especially the performance practice, a subfield in which he was one of the most important commentators. His work Musical Iconography (1972) was an important study of the depictions of musical instruments in the visual arts. He also made contributions to the study of Baroque opera.
The Howard Mayer Brown fellowships of the American Musicological Society were established his honor on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.[1] Each fellowship supports a year of graduate studies for a member of a group historically underrepresented in musicology.
Books
- Music in the French Secular Theater, 1400–1550 (dissertation Harvard U., 1959; publ. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963)
- Instrumental Music Printed Before 1600: a Bibliography (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965)
- (with J. Lascelle) Musical Iconography: a Manual for Cataloguing Musical Subjects in Western Art before 1800 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972)
- Sixteenth-Century Instrumentation: the Music for the Florentine Intermedii (1973)
- Embellishing Sixteenth-Century Music (London, 1976)
- Music in the Renaissance (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1976)
- (ed. with Stanley Sadie) Performance Practice, i: Music before 1600 (London, 1989); ii: Music after 1600 (1989)
References
- Ellen T. Harris: "Howard Mayer Brown". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online.
- ^ "AMS—Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Guidelines". www.ams-net.org. Archived from the original on 2009-09-07.
