Don Harrán

Don Harran (also spelled Harrán, [Hebrew דון חרן]; 22 April 1936 – 15 June 2016^[1]) was professor of musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[a]

Biography

Born Donald Lee Hersh in

Washington D.C.; 1998), the American Philosophical Society (1975), the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (1978), the Israel National Academy of Sciences (1976–1977, 1982–1984, 1985–1987, 1988–1989), and the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey; 2001–2002, 2004).^[2]

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 was Associate Editor (for music history) for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. He was a member of

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).^[2]

Don Harrán was married to Aya, granddaughter of the

music therapist

; they had two children.

Prizes and honors

Medal from the city of

Université François Rabelais

, Tours (1997)

Oxford University

(1977)

Michael Landau Prize for Scholarly Achievement in the Arts (1999)

Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)^[3]
Knight (Cavaliere) of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (2006)^[4]
Corresponding (Honorary Foreign) Member, American Musicological Society (2006)

Writings

Principal areas of research: word-tone relations in the Renaissance as determined by historical, theoretical, and practical/performing considerations;

Jewish musicians (composers, singers, instrumentalists, theorists), both male and female, in 16th- and 17th-century Italy; early Jewish female poets, among them Sara Copia Sullam; and the beginnings of Hebrew music historiography in the 18th century. He was an expert of Jewish western art music

.

Books

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 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): 2Il 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, Opera Omnia. 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. See also six pitch corrections at Volume Update (August 2008).

Articles

Harrán had numerous articles published in musicological and interdisciplinary journals as well as in dedicatory volumes and anthologies; see § External links).

Harrán, Don (2001). "Moscato, Judah". doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.42431. (subscription or UK public library membership
required)

Translations

Hamel, Fred [de]. 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.

Krenek, Ernst. "Amerikas Einfluß auf eingewanderte Komponisten" (Musica [de] 13 [1959]: 757–761): "America's Influence on its Émigré Composers", Perspectives of New Music 8 (1970): 112–117.

Notes

^ Faculty of Humanities, Department of Musicology

^ For title of dissertation, see section "Books".

References

^ "Prof. Don Harrán z"l (1936-2016)". Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

^ ^a ^b CV of Don Harran.

^ Hebrew University spokesperson.

^ Italian Knighthood Awarded to HU Musicology Prof. Don Harran.

External links

Personal website hosted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A full list of publications through February 2015 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Portals:
Biography
Classical music

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[2] Faculty of Humanities, Department of Musicology

[3] For title of dissertation, see section "Books".

[1] "Prof. Don Harrán z"l (1936-2016)". Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[CV-4] CV of Don Harran.

[5] Hebrew University spokesperson.

[6] Italian Knighthood Awarded to HU Musicology Prof. Don Harran.

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