Merton Brown
 Merton Brown (1913–2000) was a composer who studied with Wallingford Riegger and Carl Ruggles. He often collaborated with choreographers including former Martha Graham dancer Matti Haim José Limón and Thomas Hewitt.Virgil Thomson describes him as a neo-contrapuntalist influenced by Carl Ruggles and involved with rounded [ melodic ] material but not so much with the personalized sentiment involved in neoromanticism.