Ruth Halle Rowen
born New York City, April 5, 1918; died January 5, 2007
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American musicologist and teacher.
Ruth Halle Rowen studied at Barnard College, New York, receiving her BA degree in 1939, and at Columbia University receiving her MA in 1941 and PhD in 1948 as one of the first graduates of the doctoral program in musicology. She married Seymour M. Rowen in 1940. She worked in the education department of the music publisher Carl Fischer Inc. 1954‒63, she was associate professor at the City College of New York, CUNY, 1967‒72, and full professor from 1972. She was on the doctoral faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center.
Rowen was a member of Hans Weisse's graduate "Seminar in the Structure of Music" at Columbia in 1939/40.
Bibliography
- with Adele T. Katz, Hearing—Gateway to Music: A Complete Foundation for Musical Understanding (Evanston, IL: Summy-Birchard, 1959)
- Early Chamber Music (New York: King's Crown Press, 1949)
- Music Through Sources and Documents (New York: Prentice Hall, 1979)
Sources
- Prabook (World Biographical Encyclopedia, Inc.)
- Berry, David Carson, "The Role of Adele T. Katz in the Early Expansion of the New York 'Schenker School,'" Current Musicology 74 (2002), 103‒51
- Ian Bent and Hedi Siegel