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offertories" (1982), "Is mode real?" (1992), "Anomalous modalities" (1996), “Language Models and Musical Analysis,” and “Puccini’s Turandot: The End of the Great Tradition,”
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Orlando di Lasso in der Musikgeschichte, hrsg. v. Bernhold Schmid. München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1996, SS. 221—242.
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William Ashbrook and Harold Powers, "Puccini's Turandot: The End of the Great Tradition" (Princeton, NJ, 1991)
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in musicology. His dissertation was on “The Background of the South Indian Raga System.” Powers taught at
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and whose interests are wider still, but always with the communicative aspects of music at their base.”
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scholar and distinguished longtime AMS member whose publications have ranged from music and language to
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Harold Powers (1980). Koskoff, Ellen (ed.). "Language Models and Musical Analysis".
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traditions (especially Indian music); this allowed him to reevaluate the concept of
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Powers, Harold Stone (January 29, 2004). Sadie, Stanely; Tyrrell, John (eds.).
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Born in New York City on August 5, 1928, he earned his B.Mus. in piano from
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from 1961 to 1973 before returning to Princeton where he was named the
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Journal of the American Musicological Society XXXIV (1981), pp.428-70.
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for two years before continuing at Princeton where he received a
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Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis 16 (1992), pp.9-52.
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The Harold Powers World Travel Fund, administered by the
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in 1950 and an MFA in composition and musicology from
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Ashbrook, William; Powers, Harold (April 23, 1991).
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Harold J. Powers
musicologist
ethnomusicologist
music theorist
Syracuse University
Princeton University
Fulbright Fellow
Indian music
Madras
Ph.D.
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania
Scheide Professor of Music History
Emeritus status
John D. Rockefeller III
Fulbright Senior
Renaissance music
world music
mode
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Tonal types
Renaissance polyphony
polyphonic
Tyagaraja Aradhana
Thiruvaiyaru
India
American Musicological Society
polymathic
medieval mode
Puccini

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