Daniel Harrison

Who is Daniel Harrison?

Daniel Harrison is a music theorist, author, and former Chairman of the Department of Music at Yale University. Most interested in tonal theory, Harrison wrote his dissertation on the music of Max Reger at Yale, which eventually became Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents. Also interested in pop music, particularly The Beach Boys, he appeared in the Don Was documentary Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times. During his tenure at Yale, he was named the Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory in 2006 and Chairman in 2007. From 2001 to 2003 he was editor-in-chief of Music Theory Spectrum.