Bartholomew Brown

Life

Born: 8 September 1772, Danvers, Massachusetts

Died: 14 April 1854, Boston

Biography

Bartholomew Brown was an American lawyer, editor, and teacher of vocal and instrumental music in the early nineteenth century. He was the chief compiler of The Bridgewater Collection, 1802-1834.

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List of choral works

• Northfield   (Life is a span, a fleeting hour)

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Publications

• Brown, Bartholomew, (Benjamin Holt, and Nahum Mitchell). 1802. Columbian and European Harmony: or, Bridgewater Collection of Sacred Music. Boston: Isaiah Thomas, Ebenezer T. Andrews and John West. 159 pp. Second Edition 1804.
• Brown, Bartholomew, Benjamin Holt, and Nahum Mitchell. 1810. Bridgewater Collection of Sacred Musick, Third Edition. Boston: Thomas & Andrews and J. West & Co. 168 pp.

References

• Steel, David Warren, and Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 322 pp.

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