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Students of Matthew Brown have won many awards, from the Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French government to dissertation and teaching prizes. Brown himself is a recipient of numerous honors, including summer research fellowships from Louisiana State University (1993, 1996), a junior fellowship from Harvard University (1983-1986), the Sage Graduate Fellowship from Cornell University (1979-1980), and a full scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London.

Brown received his bachelor's degree from King's College, University of London, and his master's and Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University. Brown was a member of the Eastman faculty from 1986-1991, and rejoined the School as assistant professor of music theory in 1997. Other teaching experience includes Harvard University (1986) and Louisiana State University (1992-1997).

A prolific author and lecturer on such diverse subjects as Schenkerian Theory, Verdi, Debussy, and Jimi Hendrix, articles by Brown have been published in Integral, Music Theory Spectrum, Understanding Rock, Journal of Musicology, and elsewhere. He also is author of Debussy's "Iberia" (Oxford University Press) and "Theory" in the Harvard Dictionary of Music (1985). He is a member of Harvard's Society of Fellows, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for Music Theory.