Harrison, Frank (Francis) L(lewellyn)
Harrison, Frank (Francis) L(lewellyn)
Harrison, Frank (Francis) L(lewellyn), Irish musicologist; b. Dublin, Sept. 29, 1905; d. Tunbridge Wells, Dec. 31, 1987. He studied in Dublin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and at Trinity Coll. (Mus.B., 1926; Mus.D., 1929), and later was a postdoctoral fellow under Schrade and Hindemith at Yale Univ. (1946). He taught at Queen’s Univ., Kingston, Ontario (1935–46), Colgate Univ. (1946–47), Washington Univ. in St. Louis (1947–52), the Univ. of Oxford (1952–70), and the Univ. of Amsterdam (1970–76). He helped launch the Early English Church Music series, serving as its general ed. from 1961 to 1972; held a similar position with the Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century series from 1962 to 1974. In 1981 he was made a corresponding member of the American Musicological Soc.
Writings
Music in Medieval Britain (1958; 2nd ed., 1963); with J. Westrup, ed. Collins Music Encyclopedia (1959; U.S. edition, 1960, as The New Coll. Encyclopedia of Music); with M. Hood and C. Palisca, Musicology (1963); with J. Rimmer, European Musical Instruments (1964); Time, Place and Music: An Anthology of Ethnomusicological Observations c. 1550-c. 1800 (1973); with E. Dobson, Medieval English Songs (1979).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire