Don Harrán

Background

Don Harrán was born on April 22, 1936, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. There he studied at Yale University, majoring in French literature, and then pursued graduate studies in musicology, at the University of California at Berkeley. He settled in Israel with his Israeli wife, who also studied at UC Berkeley, in 1963.

Education

Bachelor magna cum laude, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1957;

Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1959;

Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1963.

Career

Taught music history at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, 1963-1966

Instructor, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1966-1968;

lecturer, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1968-1971;

senior lecturer, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1971-1976;

associate professor, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1976-1980;

professor musicology, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, since 1980.

Department chairman musicology Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1977-1980, 91-92, 94-,

chair Arthur Rubinstein professor of musicology, since 1980,

director Jewish Music Research Center, since 1996,

In 1993 he was Visiting Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In 2004 he was Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti (Harvard University Center for Research in the Italian Renaissance), Florence.

Achievements

• Don Harrán has been listed as a noteworthy Musicologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • In Defense of Music: The Case for Music as Argued by a Singer and Scholar of the Late Fifteenth Century

    ("These are fascinating texts, then; both because they off...)

  • In Defense of Music: The Case for Music as Argued by a Singer and Scholar of the Late Fifteenth Century

    ("These are fascinating texts, then; both because they off...)

  • Word-tone relations in musical thought: From antiquity to the seventeenth century (Musicological studies & documents)

    (Book xviii, 517 p. : music ; 27 cm.)

  • In Defense of Music : The Case for Music As Argued by a Singer and Scholar of th
  • In search of harmony: Hebrew and humanist elements in sixteenth-century musical thought (Musicological studies & documents)
  • In Defense of Music the Case for Music

Membership

Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (honorary foreign member 2006), Renaissance Society of America, Israel Musicological Society (chairman 1978-1980), International Musicological Society (board directors 1987-1992, vice president 1992-1999), American Musicological Society (honorary foreign member 2007), Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Aya Arnon, July 10, 1960, had 2 children.

Father:

Irving Harrán

Mother:

Ethel (Sherriff) Harrán

Spouse:

Aya Arnon

child:

Anat Harrán

child:

Roy Harrán