Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hans-Jorgen Holman, Edward Heppenstall, Siegfried Horn, Gerhard Hasel, Hans Larondelle, M.L. Andreasen, Phillip Barham, Denton E. Rebok, Milton E. Kern, Woodrow Whidden. Excerpt: Hans-Jorgen Holman (20 February 1925 6 August 1986) (also Hans-Jorgen Holmen-Guttormsen) was a Norwegian-American musicologist and educationalist. Holman spent the larger part of his life teaching and researching at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michiganspecializing in Medieval and Renaissance music. His 1961 Indiana University doctoral dissertation The responsoria prolixa of the Codex Worcester F 160 is considered one of the principal authoritative works on the vocal music of the Medieval church. Holman was born in Drammen in Buskerud County, Norway. He was the only child of Hans and Kirsten Halvorsen Guttormsen. His father was a successful businessman, and had a large estate called Holmen at nearby Konnerud, where he farmed minks, a weasel yielding precious fur. The familys affluence meant that Holman enjoyed a relatively comfortable upbringinga contrast to the economic hardship endured by most Norwegians at that time. An illustrative curiosity is the fact that Holmans mother, Kirsten Halvorsen, was the first woman in the city to have a drivers licence. Holman came from a family of profoundly religious Christians, and it possibly imbued him with an acute spiritual awareness. Holman displayed early on that he was fitted with a powerful intellect and an inquisitive mind; he took a deep interest in music, but also pursued studies in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Holman was only 15 years old when Hitlers troops invaded Norway. Even though he was a mere teenager focusing on his education, it did not prevent him from becoming an active member of the under. More:
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