Haydon, Glen
Haydon, Glen
Haydon, Glen, eminent American musicologist; b. Inman, Kans., Dec. 9, 1896; d. Chapel Hill, N.C., May 8, 1966. He studied at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley (B.A., 1918; M.A., 1921), then went to Paris, where he studied clarinet and composition. He then enrolled at the Univ. of Vienna, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1932 with the diss. Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Quartsextakkordes; The Evolution of the Six-Four Chord: A Chapter in the History of Dissonance Treatment (publ. in Berkeley, 1933). Returning to America, he became head of the dept. of music at the Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill (1934), and held this post until his death. He was the author of the valuable textbook Introduction to Musicology (N.Y., 1941).
Bibliography
J. Pruett, ed., Studies in Musicology: Essays in the History, Style and Bibliography of Music in Memory of G. H. (Chapel Hill, 1969).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire