See and Hear Music by Augusta Browne

On November 20, 2023

Where can I see sheet music by Augusta Browne? How can I hear music by Augusta Browne? These are the questions people ask most frequently about the composer. On the Music Editions page of this website, you will find links to open-access databases that include nineteenth-century imprints of music by Browne. The Music Editions page lists more than eighty music titles available online. The entries are arranged by genre (piano pieces; songs; hymns), then alphabetically by title.

Look for “Listen to the Music” links on the Music Editions page for online performances of music by Augusta Browne. Some renditions are recorded performances, others are audio files generated from Finale music notation software.

AUGUSTA BROWNE

Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America

Bonny H. Miller

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Augusta Browne Garrett (ca. 1820–82) was one of the professional women musicians most active in publishing sheet music in nineteenth-century America. Her lively songs and piano solos, prose, and music journalism present an engaging period voice neglected for too long.

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The 2021 H. Robert Cohen/RIPM committee of the American Musicological Society expressed “high respect” for the “superlative quality of Bonny Miller’s work” and awarded Honorable Mention as a “mark of distinction” for Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America. The H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Award is awarded by the AMS each year for outstanding work based on the musical press.

“Bonny H. Miller’s Augusta Browne is a superb piece of musicological scholarship. Every chapter reveals methodological mastery, nuanced analysis, engaging writing, and contagious enthusiasm for restoring a historical figure who has been undeservedly neglected.” [Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music]

“The author deftly sets up the forces in Browne’s life, both from her family, training, and social class, and from the wider cultural world surrounding her.” “engagingly written” “richly contextualized” [Journal of Musicological Research]

“This biography is an inspiration and should be included in any graduate-level research methods class for future scholars to learn from Miller’s methodologies.” [Music Library Association Notes]

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Raisin Oatmeal “Conference Cookies”

By Bonny Miller

On November 11, 2023

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By request, here’s the recipe! I call them “Conference Cookies” because the recipe makes a big batch, enough to last through the SCMTA (South Carolina Music Teachers Association) conference.

No cookie from the grocery store had ever tasted as good as these soft raisin cookies when I made them for the first time when I was in seventh grade. The original recipe came from General Foods Kitchens’ All About Home Baking (6^th edition, 1963; note dog-eared cover and stained pages), a booklet we used in my Home Economics class. These days I substitute instant oatmeal in place of nuts to steer clear of nut allergies.

Who was J. W. B. Garrett?

By Bonny Miller

On April 26, 2023

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Who was J. W. B. Garrett, whom Augusta Browne married in September 1855, within weeks of first meeting him?

J. W. B. (John Walter Benjamin) Garrett was an artist who specialized in portraits, especially paintings made from small daguerreotypes, just as families today can commission a portrait to be painted from a photograph. Garrett had not trained as an artist and turned to painting around 1850, after chasing journalism and politics as a young man. John (J. W. B.) did not hail from New York. He arrived in Gotham during the summer of 1855, after traveling from Memphis, Tennessee, where he had recently lived and maintained a portrait studio.

Irish Curiosity (in Honor of St. Patrick’s Day)

By Bonny Miller

On March 17, 2023

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“Irish Curiosity” is the name of a short story published by Augusta Browne in 1848, one hundred seventy-five years ago. The theme of the humorous story is curiosity, which is considered a commendable thirst for knowledge in a man, but in a woman, curiosity is regarded as inappropriate interference in the affairs of others. Further, as Browne expressed in deliberately misspelled language that gave the flavor of an Irish brogue, a woman “of coorse can’t kape a saycret.”