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David Hiley

English musicologist (born 1947) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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David Hiley (born 5 September 1947) is an English musicologist. He specializes in early music, particularly plainchant, early polyphony and English music.[1]

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Life and career

David Hiley was born in Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England on 5 September 1947. He studied with Bernard Rose and David Wulstan at Magdalen College (BA 1968), and with Ian Bent and Howard Mayer Brown at King's College London (PhD 1981), with a doctorate on the sacred music of Norman Sicily. After posts at Eton College (assistant music master; 1968–73) and Royal Holloway College, University of London (lecturer; 1976–86), he joined the University of Regensburg as a professor of musicology, where he has been since 1986.[1]

Hiley specializes in early music, particularly plainchant, early polyphony and English music.[1] His publications include two book-length surveys of plainchant, Western Plainchant (1993) and Gregorian Chant (2009).[2]

Among his memberships are as honorary vice-president of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society (PMMS; 1996); member of Academia Europaea (1998); and corresponding member of the American Musicological Society (2002).[3] From 1978 to 1990 he edited the PMMS' Plainsong and Medieval Music journal.[1]

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Selected bibliography

Books

  • Richard, Crocker; David, Hiley, eds. (1990). The New Oxford History of Music. Vol. II: The Early Middle Ages To 1300 (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-316329-4.
  • Hiley, David (1993). Western Plainchant: A Handbook. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816289-6.
  • (2009). Gregorian Chant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-69035-5.

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