Glen Haydon

Background

Haydon, Glen was born on December 9, 1896 in Infman, Kansas, United States. Son of William Leslie and Ursula Evelyn (Parker) Haydon.

Education

AB, University of California, 1918; Master of Arts, University of California, 1921; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Vienna, 1932; European study with Eugène Cools (composition) and Auguste Périer (clarinet), Paris, 1923-1924; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Vienna, 1932.

Career

He remained chair of the department until his death in 1965. Haydon wrote Introduction to Musicology, one of the first books on the subject written in English. He also played a key role in the creation of the Music Library at the University.

Haydon travelled extensively through Europe during the summers prior to World War II collecting the books and periodicals that would become the nexus of the library's collection. He was a 1934 initiate of the Alpha Rho chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at Carolina.

Works

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  • Introduction To Musicology: A Survey Of The Fields, Systematic And Historical, Of Musical Knowledge And Research

    (Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections)

  • Introduction To Musicology: A Survey Of The Fields, Systematic And Historical, Of Musical Knowledge And Research

    (Format Paperback Subject Music)

  • Introduction to Musicology : A Survey of the Fields, Systematic & Historical, of Musical Knowledge & Research
  • Introduction to Musicology: A Survey of the Fields, Systematic and Historical, of Musical Knowledge & Research

Membership

Member American Association of University Professors, American Musicol. Society (president 1942-1944), National Association of Music in Liberal Arts Colls., Music Educators National Conference (national board 1937-1941), Music Teachers National Association (president 1940-1942), North Carolina State Music Teachers Association(president 1937-1940), National Association of Schools of Music (member graduate committee 1942-1947), American Council Learned Socs. (commission on musicology 1934-1948, chairman 1941-1948), Southern Humanities Conference (delegate from Eastern chapter American Musicol.

Society 1947), International Musicol. Society, Music Library. Association, Royal Musical Society (London), American Society for Aesthetics (trustee 1946-1947), Mediaeval Academy of America, Phi Mu Alpha, Phi Delta Kappa, Pi Kappa Lambda. M C.

Connections

Married Helen Bergfried, September 14, 1922. Children: Glen Bergfried, Valeska Howell.