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James Haar (July 4, 1929 – September 15, 2018) was an American
musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...
and W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Music at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...
. A specialist in
Renaissance music Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from the early 14th-century ''ars nova'', the mus ...
, he was the Editor-in-chief of the ''
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'' from 1966 to 1969 and served as the president of
American Musicological Society The American Musicological Society (AMS) is a musicological organization which researches, promotes and produces publications on music. Founded in 1934, the AMS was begun by leading American musicologists of the time, and was crucial in legiti ...
from 1976 to 1978. He was elected a member of the
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in 1987.Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura (2001)
"Haar, James"
'' Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians''. Schirmer Books. . Online version retrieved February 9, 2016 .
Haar was born in
St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis ( , sometimes referred to as St. Louis City, Saint Louis or STL) is an Independent city (United States), independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Miss ...
. He received his BA from
Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...
in 1950 and his MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1954. He returned to Harvard to complete his PhD under John Ward and Nino Pirrotta, graduating in 1961. His doctoral dissertation, ''Musica mundana: Variations on a Pythagorean Theme'', explored the ancient belief in ''
musica universalis The ''musica universalis'' (literally universal music), also called music of the spheres or harmony of the spheres, is a philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies—the Sun, Moon, and planets—as a form ...
'' and its effect on musical thought in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. It remains one of the standard works on the subject. His teaching career began at Harvard (1960–1967), followed by the
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...
(1967–1969), and then
New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
, where he was appointed a professor in the music department in 1969 and served as chair of the department from 1971 to 1977. In 1978, he was appointed Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he remained for the rest of his academic career. ''The Science and Art of Renaissance Music'', a collection of some of Haar's key essays and studies written over three decades, was published by Princeton University Press in 1998.Lange, Marjory E. (Winter, 2000)
Review: ''The Science and Art of Renaissance Music'' by James Haar, Paul Corneilson"
'' The Sixteenth Century Journal'', Vol. 31, No. 4 , pp. 1203–1204. .


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Further reading

* LaRue, Jan (1994
"Salutation"
(pp. 235–236) in ''
The Journal of Musicology ''The Journal of Musicology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of musicology published by University of California Press The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the Un ...
'', Vol. 12, No. 3. Special issue: ''Aspects of Musical Language and Culture in the Renaissance. A Birthday Tribute to James Haar''. University of California Press *Warfield, Scott (2019) "James Haar (1929–2018)" (p. 30) in ''AMS Newsletter'', Vol. 49, No. 1. {{DEFAULTSORT:Haar, James 1929 births 2018 deaths American musicologists Harvard University alumni Harvard University faculty New York University faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty People from St. Louis Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Lassus scholars