Don Michael Randel (born December 9, 1940) is an American
musicologist, specializing in the
music of the
Middle Ages and
Renaissance in Spain and France. He is currently the Chair of the Board of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a trustee of the
Carnegie Corporation, and a member of the
Encyclopædia Britannica editorial board, and has previously served as the fifth president of
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, twelfth president of the
University of Chicago,
Provost of
Cornell University, and
Dean of
Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has served as editor of the third and fourth editions of the
Harvard Dictionary of Music, the
Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, and the
Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians.