Howard Mayer Brown, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American musicologist
Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1930
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Death: 20-Feb-1993
Profession: musicologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Howard Mayer Brown
- Howard Mayer Brown (April 13, 1930 – February 20, 1993) was an American musicologist. Brown obtained his BA from Harvard in 1951 and his Ph.D.
- in 1959, studying under Walter Piston and Otto Gombosi among others.
- He conducted and performed on flute often as a graduate student.
- He taught at Wellesley College, 1958–60, and then at the University of Chicago from 1960, where he became chair of the music department in 1970.
- In 1972 he became professor at King's College in London, but returned to Chicago in 1974.
- Brown was editor of Renaissance Music in Facsimile, published 1977–1982, and was the general editor of several other monument series of musical editions.
- He contributed prolifically to the 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 chanson and instrumental music, and frequently returned to problems in historical 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.
- Each fellowship supports a year of graduate studies for a member of a group historically underrepresented in musicology.
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