Don Harrán
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Don Harran is the Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
.
, Don Harrán
did his undergraduate work at Yale University
, majoring in French literature
(B.A.
magna cum laude, 1957), and pursued graduate studies in musicology
, mainly under Edward Lowinsky
and, as dissertation advisor, Joseph Kerman
, at the University of California at Berkeley (M.A.
, 1959; Ph.D.
, 1963).
He settled in Israel with his Israeli wife, who also studied at UC Berkeley, in 1963. During the years 1963–66 he taught music history at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem
and, since 1966, has been a member of the Department of Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, becoming Emmanuel Alexandre Associate Professor of Musicology in 1976, Artur Rubinstein Full Professor of Musicology in 1980, and since his retirement in 2004 Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology. He chaired the Department of Musicology during the years 1977–80, 1991–92, and 1994–97. In 1993 he was Visiting Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles
, and in 2004 Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti (Harvard University
Center for Research in the Italian Renaissance), Florence
. He received various fellowships and grants, among them the American Council of Learned Societies
(1974–75), the Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture (1980–81, 1992–93, 2001–2), Newberry Library
(Chicago
; 1993), Folger Shakespeare Library
(Washington D.C.; 1998), the American Philosophical Society
(1975), the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (1978), the Israel National Academy of Sciences
(1976–77, 1982–84, 1985–87, 1988–89), and the Institute for Advanced Study
(Princeton, New Jersey
; 2001–2, 2004).
Harrán served as musical advisor for the Cultural Center of the American Embassy in Israel, organizing concerts of American music and lecturing thereon during the years 1967–70; as corresponding editor on musicology in Israel for the journal Current Musicology from 1968 to 1990; and, since 1908, he acts as Associate Editor (for music history) for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Israel Musicological Society (chair, 1978–80), the American Musicological Society
, the International Musicological Society (board of directors, 1987–92; vice-president, 1992–97), the Renaissance Society of America
, the World Union of Jewish Studies, and the European Association of Jewish Studies. During the years 1996–2000 he was named Acting Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).
Don Harrán is married to Aya, granddaughter of the Biblical commentator Samuel Leib Gordon, and a music therapist; they have two children.
and music; music as rhetoric; instrumental music in the early Baroque
; Jewish musicians (composers, singers, instrumentalists, theorists), both male and female, in 16th- and 17th-century Italy; early Jewish female poets, among them Sara Copia Sulam; and the beginnings of Hebrew music historiography
in the 18th century.
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...
.
Biography
Born in Cambridge, MassachusettsCambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
, Don Harrán
did his undergraduate work at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, majoring in French literature
French literature
French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens...
(B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
magna cum laude, 1957), and pursued graduate studies in musicology
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
, mainly under Edward Lowinsky
Edward Lowinsky
Edward Elias Lowinsky was an American musicologist born in Stuttgart, Germany,to Leopold L. and Clara Rosenfeld....
and, as dissertation advisor, Joseph Kerman
Joseph Kerman
Joseph Wilfred Kerman is an American critic and musicologist. One of the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology was described by Philip Brett in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "a defining moment in the field." He is...
, at the University of California at Berkeley (M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
, 1959; Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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, 1963).
He settled in Israel with his Israeli wife, who also studied at UC Berkeley, in 1963. During the years 1963–66 he taught music history at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance , founded in 1958 as the Rubin Academy of Music, is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-History:...
and, since 1966, has been a member of the Department of Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, becoming Emmanuel Alexandre Associate Professor of Musicology in 1976, Artur Rubinstein Full Professor of Musicology in 1980, and since his retirement in 2004 Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology. He chaired the Department of Musicology during the years 1977–80, 1991–92, and 1994–97. In 1993 he was Visiting Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
, and in 2004 Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti (Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
Center for Research in the Italian Renaissance), Florence
Florence
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. He received various fellowships and grants, among them the American Council of Learned Societies
American Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies , founded in 1919, is a private nonprofit federation of seventy scholarly organizations.ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards. ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D...
(1974–75), the Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture (1980–81, 1992–93, 2001–2), Newberry Library
Newberry Library
The Newberry Library is a privately endowed, independent research library for the humanities and social sciences in Chicago, Illinois. Although it is private, non-circulating library, the Newberry Library is free and open to the public...
(Chicago
Chicago
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; 1993), Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period...
(Washington D.C.; 1998), the American Philosophical Society
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society, founded in 1743, and located in Philadelphia, Pa., is an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation, that promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications,...
(1975), the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (1978), the Israel National Academy of Sciences
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was set up in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between scholars from the sciences and humanities in Israel, to advise the government on research projects of national importance, and to promote excellence. It comprises...
(1976–77, 1982–84, 1985–87, 1988–89), and the Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is an independent postgraduate center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner...
(Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a community located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It is best known as the location of Princeton University, which has been sited in the community since 1756...
; 2001–2, 2004).
Harrán served as musical advisor for the Cultural Center of the American Embassy in Israel, organizing concerts of American music and lecturing thereon during the years 1967–70; as corresponding editor on musicology in Israel for the journal Current Musicology from 1968 to 1990; and, since 1908, he acts as Associate Editor (for music history) for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Israel Musicological Society (chair, 1978–80), the American Musicological Society
American Musicological Society
The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...
, the International Musicological Society (board of directors, 1987–92; vice-president, 1992–97), the Renaissance Society of America
The Renaissance Society of America
The Renaissance Society of America is an academic association founded in 1954 supportingthe study of the Renaissance period, 1300–1650, in Western history....
, the World Union of Jewish Studies, and the European Association of Jewish Studies. During the years 1996–2000 he was named Acting Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).
Don Harrán is married to Aya, granddaughter of the Biblical commentator Samuel Leib Gordon, and a music therapist; they have two children.
Prizes and honors
- Medal from the city of ToursToursTours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.It is located on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection of its local spoken French, and for the...
in conjunction with the Université François Rabelais, Tours (1997) - Donald Tovey Memorial Prize, Oxford University (1977)
- Michael Landau Prize for Scholarly Achievement in the Arts (1999)
- Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAmerican Academy of Arts and SciencesThe American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...
(2005) - Knight (Cavaliere) of the Order of the Star of Italian SolidarityOrder of the Star of Italian SolidarityThe Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity was founded as national order by the first President of the Italian Republic, Enrico De Nicola, in 1947, to recognise civilian and military expatriates or foreigners who made an outstanding contribution to the reconstruction of Italy after World War...
(2006) - Corresponding (Honorary Foreign) Member, American Musicological SocietyAmerican Musicological SocietyThe American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...
(2006)
Writings
Principal areas of research: word-tone relations in the Renaissance as determined by historical, theoretical, and practical/performing considerations; humanismHumanism
Humanism is an approach in study, philosophy, world view or practice that focuses on human values and concerns. In philosophy and social science, humanism is a perspective which affirms some notion of human nature, and is contrasted with anti-humanism....
and music; music as rhetoric; instrumental music in the early Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
; Jewish musicians (composers, singers, instrumentalists, theorists), both male and female, in 16th- and 17th-century Italy; early Jewish female poets, among them Sara Copia Sulam; and the beginnings of Hebrew music historiography
Historiography
Historiography refers either to the study of the history and methodology of history as a discipline, or to a body of historical work on a specialized topic...
in the 18th century.
Books
- ‘Barucaba,’ a Tale of Jewish Woe as Told for Its Impact on Music and Literature in the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries. Leiden, Boston: Brill (in preparation; to be completed by 2011).
- In Defense of Music: The Case for Music as Argued by a Singer and Scholar of the Late Fifteenth Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. xiii + 175 pp.
- In Search of Harmony: Hebrew and Humanist Elements in Sixteenth-Century Musical Thought. Musicological Studies & Documents 42. Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler-Verlag for the American Institute of Musicology, 1988. xx + 301 pp.
- “Maniera” e il madrigale: una raccolta di poesie musicali del Cinquecento. Biblioteca dell’“Archivum Romanicum,” series 1, vol. 158. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1980. 123 pp.
- Musikologyah: techumim u-megamot [Musicology: Areas and Aims]. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1975. 240 pp.
- Salamone Rossi, Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, soft cover edition, 2003. x + 310 pp.
- Sarra Copia Sulam, Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose, along with Writings of Her Contemporaries in Her Praise, Condemnation, or Defense. Introduced, edited, and translated by Don Harrán. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. xxxiii + 598 pp.
- Verdelot and the Early Madrigal. Ph.D. dissertation. 2 vols. University of California, Berkeley, 1963. iv + 307 pp.; 170 pp.
- Word-Tone Relations in Musical Thought: From Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. Musicological Studies & Documents 40. Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler-Verlag for the American Institute of Musicology, 1986. xviii + 517 pp.
Critical editions
- The Anthologies of Black-Note Madrigals. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 73. 5 vols. in 6. Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler-Verlag for the American Institute of Musicology, 1978–81.
- Vol. 1, pt. 1 (1978): Il primo libro d’i madrigali . . . a misura di breve . . . quatuor vocum (1542). lvii + 79 pp.
- Vol. 1, pt. 2 (1978): Il primo libro d’i madrigali . . . a misura di breve . . . quatuor vocum (1542). lviii–lxxxii + 153 pp.
- Vol. 2 (1978): Il secondo libro de li madrigali . . . a misura di breve . . . a quatro voci (1543). xliii + 148 pp.
- Vol. 3 (1980): Libro terzo . . . li madrigali a quatro voce a notte negre (1549). xxxv + 117 pp.
- Vol. 4 (1980): Il vero terzo libro di madrigali . . . a note negre (1549). xliii + 131 pp.
- Vol. 5 (1981): Black-Note Madrigals (3–4 v.) from the Earliest Printed Collections (1540, 1541, 1542). xxiv + 49 pp.
- Hubert Naich: Collected Works. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 94. Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler-Verlag for the American Institute of Musicology, 1983. lvii + 197 pp.
- Salamone Rossi: Complete Works. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 100. Vols. 1–12, Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler-Verlag for the American Institute of Musicology, 1995; vols. 13a and 13b, Middleton, Wis.: American Institute of Musicology, 2003.
- Vol. 1: Madrigals for 5 voices, Book 1 (1600). lxxxvi + 94 pp.
- Vol. 2: Madrigals for 5 voices, Book 2 (1602). xxxii + 68 pp.
- Vol. 3: Madrigals for 5 voices, Book 3 (1603). xxxv + 67 pp.
- Vol. 4: Madrigals for 5 voices, Book 4 (1610). xxxvi + 67 pp.
- Vol. 5: Madrigals for 5 voices, Book 5 (1622). xxxiv + 23 pp.
- Vol. 6: Canzonette for 3 voices (1589). xxxvi + 32 pp.
- Vol. 7: Madrigals for 4 voices (1614). xxxiii + 59 pp.
- Vol. 8: Madrigaletti for 2–3 voices (1628), plus three appendices. lix + 67 pp.
- Vol. 9: Sinfonie, Gagliarde, etc., for 3–5 voices, Book 1 (1607). xxviii + 37 pp.
- Vol. 10: Sinfonie, Gagliarde, etc., for 3–5 voices, Book 2 (1608). xx + 55 pp.
- Vol. 11: Sonatas, Sinfonie, Gagliarde, etc., for 3 voices, Book 3 (1623). xxiii + 83 pp.
- Vol. 12: Sonatas, Sinfonie, Gagliarde, etc., for 3 voices, Book 4 (1622). xxiv + 91 pp.
- Vol. 13a: Ha-shirim asher li-shelomo [The Songs of Solomon], for 3–8 voices (1623): General Introduction. xxx + 222 pp.; 24 illustrations.
- Vol. 13b: Ha-shirim asher li-shelomo [The Songs of Solomon], for 3–8 voices (1623): Music (33 Hebrew works). x + 238 pp. (For six pitch corrections, see http://www.corpusmusicae.com/cmm/cmm_cc100.htm under Volume Update, August 2008.)
Articles
Harrán has had numerous articles published in musicological and interdisciplinary journals as well as in dedicatory volumes and anthologies see external links).Translations
- Das Atlantisbuch der Musik (9th ed., Zurich: Atlantis Verlag, 1959), revised and translated into Hebrew as Toledot ha-musikah ha-eropit [The History of European Music]. Ramat Gat: Masada, 1969. 318 pp.
- Ernst Krenek, “Amerikas Einfluß auf eingewanderte Komponisten” (Musica 13 [1959]: 757–61): “America’s Influence on Its Émigré Composers,” Perspectives of New Music 8 (1970): 112–17.
External links
- The personal website of Don Harrán (with links to selected articles)
- A full list of publications
- For abstracts of his writings, see the database RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) Abstracts of Music (available in most university libraries)