Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Vol. 3: Haar-Levi
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Vol. 3: Haar-Levi by Nicolas Slonimsky, Laura Diane Kuhn
English | April 2001 | ISBN: 0028655281 | 704 pages | PDF | 64 MB
English | April 2001 | ISBN: 0028655281 | 704 pages | PDF | 64 MB
Haar, James, American musicologist; b. St. Louis, July 4, 1929. He studied at Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1950) and at the Univ. of N.C. (M.A., 1954); then returned to Harvard to complete his training under John Ward and Nino Pirrotta (PhD., 1961, with the diss. Musica mundana: Variations on a Pythagorean Theme); served on its faculty (1960-67). He taught at the Univ. of Pa. (1967-69), N.Y.U. (1969-78), and the Univ. of N.C. (from 1978). Haar also was general ed. of the Journal of the American Musicological Society (1966-69), later serving as the society's president (1976-78). With L. Bernstein, he ed. The Duos of Jhan Cero (1977). He pub!. The Tugendsterne of Harsdorffer and Staden (1965) and Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600 (1986). With 1. Fenlon, he pub!. The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century: Sources and Interpretation (1989). P. Corneilson ed. his The Science and Art of Renaissance Music (Princeton, 1998).-NSILKIDM…
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Vol. 3: Haar-Levi
