David Hiley | |
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Born | Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England | 5 September 1947
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Known for | Scholarship on plainchant |
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Discipline | Early music |
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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]
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]