Clement A. (Clement Antrobus) Harris

Clement Antrobus Harris was a British musician and writer, born in 1862 and remembered today chiefly for How to Write Music: Musical Orthography, published in 1917. Contemporary listings identify him as an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, which fits the practical, instructional tone of his best-known book.

He also wrote articles for The Musical Quarterly, including pieces on musical allusions in literature, debates in solfège teaching, and unusual cultural corners of music history. Taken together, those publications suggest a musician with broad curiosity as well as solid technical training.

Harris died in 1942. A few details of his life remain hard to confirm from easily available sources, but the surviving record shows a writer deeply interested in helping readers think clearly about how music is written, read, and talked about.