Background

Harrán, Don was born on April 22, 1936 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Irving and Ethel (Sherriff) Harrán. arrived in Israel, 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

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.

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. Children: Anat, Roy.

Father:

Irving Harrán

Mother:

Ethel (Sherriff) Harrán

Spouse:

Aya Arnon

child:

Anat Harrán

child:

Roy Harrán