Professor of Music
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8790

E-mail: BrownLE@ripon.edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• B.Mus, Northwestern University

Awards and Honors

• 1992-93: Penn State University, Administrative Fellow for the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
• 1990: Penn State University, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Research Fellowship, (for research in Glasgow and Washington, D.C.)
• 1989: National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, (for research in Glasgow)

Areas of Interest

• Eighteenth-century French opera
• Ethics in academics
• Music, aesthetics and the arts of the 18th century
• Performance practices of early music
• Scottish Enlightenment

Recent Publications

• "An Essay Suggesting an Important Application of the Highland Music?: Moral Sentiment and the Oeconomic Ode." 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 6 (2001): 317-32.
• "The Common Sense School and the Science of Music in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: A Look at John Holden's Essay Towards a Rational System of Music." Essays in Honor of J. F. Ohl: A Compendium of American Musicology. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2001.
• Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia (Gerald Newman, Editor). Associate Editor: Music, Painting, the Arts. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997.

Current Courses Taught

• Aesthetics
• Introduction to Music
• Love and Eros in the Fine and Performing Arts
• Form and Analysis
• Medieval and Renaissance Musical Styles
• Twentieth-Century Musical Styles
• Performance Today: Concerts and Contemporary Concert Life in America