Jaan Ross

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Jaan Ross (born April 5, 1957 in Tartu ) is an Estonian musicologist and psychologist .

life and work

Jaan Ross attended the children's music school in Tartu, which he graduated in 1972 with a specialization in piano. He then attended the music high school in Tallinn , where he graduated from high school in 1975. This was followed by studies at the Estonian Academy of Music and Drama , which was completed in 1980 “cum laude” in musicology. His other academic stations were the Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy in Vilnius , where he was “Candidate for Science” in 1988, and the Åbo Akademi in Turku , where he obtained his doctorate in 1992 .

In his professional life, Ross was a researcher at the Estonian Language Institute in Tallinn from 1993 to 1996 and then dean and head of department in various areas of the University of Tartu . At the same time, he has been a professor at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater since 1995. In 2003 he was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences . Ross also translates from Russian.

Jaan Ross is married to the Estonian linguist and translator Kristiina Ross . Their daughter Johanna Ross is also a literary scholar and translator.

Awards

• 2001 Music Prize of the Estonian Cultural Capital
• 2001 Order of the White Star , 4th class

Bibliography (selection)

• Studies on pitch, timbre and timing of complex auditory events . Tallinn: Tallinna Tehnikaülikool 1992. 118 pp.
• (together with Ilse Lehiste ): The temporal structure of Estonian runic songs . Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter 2001. ix + 205 pp.
• Kaksteist loengut muusikapsühholoogiast . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2007. 189 pp.
• Encapsulated voices: Estonian sound recordings from the German Prisoner-of-War camps in 1916–1918 . Cologne [etc.]: Böhlau 2012. 197 pp.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eesti muusika biograafiline leksikon. 2. köide, N – Y. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2008, pp. 217-219.

Web links

• Jaan Ross in the Estonian science database ETIS