Bruce Alan Brown acquired degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (BA 1977, MA 1979, PhD 1986), and also studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt at the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam.^[1]

Brown's research concerns the music of the later eighteenth century, theatre-music, performance practice, music in Vienna, Austria, and musical iconography. From 2005 to 2007 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society.^[1]

• Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna (Oxford, 1991)
• W. A. Mozart: Così fan tutte (Cambridge, 1995)
• W. A. Mozart: Idomeneo: Kritischer Bericht, in Mozart: Idomeneo. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke ed. by Daniel Heartz (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2005)
• The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Gennaro Magri and His World (ed., with Rebecca Harris-Warrick; Madison, 2005)

• Christoph Willibald Gluck: Le Diable à quatre (Kassel, 1992)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck: L'Arbre enchanté (1775 Versailles version) (Kassel, 2009)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck: L'Arbre enchanté (1759 Vienna version) (Kassel, 2015)

• World Cat Identities^{[permanent dead link]}
• Bruce Alan Brown – USC Thornton School of Music