- Brown, James D
[E] Brown, James D., tenor singer, lecturer
and teacher, was born at Aberdeen in 1834.
He studied music and singing iinder James
Davie, Samuel Barr, Thomas Macfarlane,
H. Kuchler, and Alex. W. Smith, and was
conductor of i^salmody in Free St. David's
Church, Edinburgh, from 1865 till 1877.
Since 1866, he has given many concerts and
lectures on the ballad music of Scotlaird, and
has done much to aid the movement in favour
of thorough voice cultivation, and to foster a
taste for the old and genuine ballad music of
Scotland. He has composed a few songs to
words by Burns, etc. His son, James Duff
Brown, was born at Edinburgh, November
6th, 1862. He was educated at the Church
of Scotland Normal School, and afterwards
entered the employment of publishing firms
in Edinburgh and Glasgow. From 1878 till
1888 he was an assistant-librarian in the
Mitchell Library, Glasgow, and in September,
1888, he was appoiiited librarian of Clerken-
well Public Library, London, a position he
now holds. Author of " Biographical diction-
ary of musicians, with a bibliography of
English writings on music," Paisley, 1886.
"Handbook of library appliances: the techni-
cal equipment of libraries," Loudon, 1892.
" Guide to the formation of a music library,"
London, 1893. Numerous papers on library
economy, and on topics connected with
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