The British Musical Biography

[E] Brown, Robert, of Rockhaven, writer and
theorist, was born at Glasgow, 1789-90, and
died at Rockhaven, near Fairlie, Ayrshire,
25th August, 1873. Author of The Elements
of Musical Science, London, 1860. An Intro-
duction to Musical Arithmetic, with its appli-
cation to Temperament, London, 1865.
Rudiments of Harmony and Counterpoint on
a New Method . . . London, 1863. Also a
work on Scottish Highland Psalm Tunes.

[+] In the first work Brown advocates the
adoption of a uniform clef, and illustrates
this in the course of his book. He also sug-
gests certain modifications in the method of
expressing harmonical combinations, etc.

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