Oliver Brownson

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Life

Born: 13 May 1746 in Bolton, Tolland County, Connecticut

Died: 20 Oct 1815 in Smithfield, New York

Biography

Oliver Brownson was an American composer, who lived in Connecticut for much of his life. In 1775 he married Sarah Merrels, and they had at least one child. Oliver Brownson was a singing master in Connecticut during the last two to three decades of the 18th Century.

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List of choral works

LISTING BY TITLE

1. Psalm-Tunes

1a. Published 1779 Jubilee Norwich 1b. Published 1782 Norfolk Salisbury Virginia

1c. Published 1783 Bedford Bolton Buckland Byford Cambridge Colchester Dresden Guildford Invitation Litchfield Newport Ninety-Fifth Stafford Sunday Sutton Westfield York

1d. Published 1784 1e. Published 1790

1f. Published 1797 1g. Published 1802

LISTING BY FIRST LINE

Alas, the brittle clay Blow ye the trumpet, blow Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched

God of my salvation, hear Great God, the heav'ns well-ordered frame My never-ceasing songs shall show

My sorrows, like a flood The Eternal speaks, all heaven attends Thy words the raging wind control Twas from thy hand, my God, I came

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Publications

• Select Harmony, Containing the Necessary Rules of Psalmody, Together With a Collection of Approved Psalm Tunes, Hymns and Anthems, by Oliver Brownson. Hartford, Connecticut, 1783. 100 pp.
• A new Collection of Sacred Harmony. Simsbury, Connecticut, 1797.

References

• Kroeger, Karl, Editor. 1997. Three Connecticut Composers: Oliver Brownson, Alexander Gillet, and Solomon Chandler: The Collected Works. Garland Publishing, reprinted 2013 by Routledge, New York. 184 pp.
• Steel, David Warren; Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 321 pp.

External links

• Works by Oliver Brownson in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
• http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/12845547052907