Almost com­plete­ly self taught, Brown be­gan play­ing the or­gan at the age 10. He was or­gan­ist of the Brent­wood Par­ish Church, Es­sex (1842-53); St. Ed­ward’s, Rom­ford (1853-58); Brent­wood Par­ish Church (1858-88); St. Pe­ter’s Church, South Weald (from 1889); and Sir An­tho­ny Browne’s School (to 1926). A mem­ber of the Lon­don Gre­gor­i­an As­so­ci­a­tion, he helped as­sem­ble the Ser­vice Book for the an­nu­al fes­tiv­al in St. Paul’s Ca­thed­ral. He sup­port­ed the Ox­ford Move­ment, and pi­o­neered the res­tor­a­tion of plain­chant and Gre­gor­i­an mu­sic in Ang­li­can wor­ship.

Brown ed­it­ed var­i­ous pub­li­ca­tions, in­clud­ing the Al­tar Hym­nal. His other works in­clude set­tings of the Can­ti­cles and the Ho­ly Com­mun­ion Ser­vice, a Child­ren’s Fes­tiv­al Serv­ice, an­thems, songs, part songs, and over 800 hymn tunes and car­ols.

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1. Alleluia! Sing the Tri­umph
2. Arthur
3. Dale Ab­bey
4. Fields of Gold Are Glow­ing
5. Gerran
6. Holy Church
7. Holy Rood
8. If An­gels Sang Our Sav­ior’s Birth
9. Lammas
10. O, Sing We a Car­ol
11. Purleigh
12. Redemptor Mun­di
13. Ring On, Ye Joy­ous Christ­mas Bells
14. Saffron Wal­den
15. St. An­a­tol­i­us
16. St. Aus­tell
17. St. John Dam­as­cene
18. St. Ma­byn
19. St. So­phro­ni­us
20. Story of the Cross
21. Sweet Child Di­vine