Jaan Ross, D.Sc.
Professor of Musicology
University of Tartu
Estonian Academy of Music
Born in 1957 in Tartu, Estonia
Studied Musicology at the Academy of Music in Tallinn and at the Tschaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and Lithuanian Academy of Music and Psychology at Åbo Academy, Turku, Finland
Fellowship
Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow
Project
A Textbook on Music Psychology for Estonian Students
This project is aimed at writing a textbook on music psychology, first of all, for students at the Estonian higher education institutions. The textbook will summarize contents of lectures the author has been delivering at the Estonian Academy of Music and the University of Tartu since 1988. The tasks to be solved at the Academy and at the University have apparently been quite different from each other: For the music students, the most important goal was to introduce elements of a scientific way of thinking during the classes, while for the university students not specialized in music, it was necessary to find means to explain music in terms comprehensible for the individuals without special music education. The prospective textbook will try to find a balance between the two above approaches. It will be divided into approximately 15 lectures on such topics as music and language; Adorno and music sociology; cognitive dimensions of pitch, timing, and timbre; paradoxes in hearing; music and emotions; auditory stream segregation, etc.Recommended Reading
Ross, Jaan. "Formant Frequencies in Estonian Folk Singing." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91 (1992): 3532-3539.
Ross, Jaan and Ilse Lehiste. The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
Vurma, Allan and Jaan Ross. "Priorities in Voice Training: Carrying Power or Tone Quality." In The Music Practitioner: Research for the Music Performer, Teacher and Listener, edited by Jane W. Davidson, 175-190. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2004.
Publications from the Fellows' Library
Ross, Jaan (2012)
On Estonian recordings made in German prisoner-of-war-caps during World War I
Ross, Jaan (Köln [u.a.], 2012)
Encapsulated voices : Estonian sound recordings from the German prisoner-of-war camps in 1916 - 1918 Das Baltikum in Geschichte und Gegenwart ; 5
Ross, Jaan (2010)
Ross, Jaan (2008)
Esimese maailmasõja aegsetest eesti salvestustest Berliini arhiivides
Ross, Jaan (2007)
Timbre-induced pitch deviations of musical sounds / Vurma Allan and Jaan Ross
Ross, Jaan (2007)
Timbre-induced pitch deviations of musical sounds
Ross, Jaan (Tartu, 2007)
Kaksteist loengut muusikapsühholoogiast
Ross, Jaan ([s.l.], 2006)
Blagozvucie : ob''ektivnye predposylki konsonantnosti v muzyke
Ross, Jaan (2005)
How free is alternating stress in Erzya?
Ross, Jaan (Tallin, 2004)
