Life and career
Thomas James Mathiesen was born in Roslyn Heights,New York,US on April 30,1947. He received a Bachelor of Arts at Willamette University in 1968,and both a Master of Music and a PhD at the University of Southern California (USC). At the latter school,Mathiesen's teachers included scholars such as Ingolf Dahl and Halsey Stevens. After a stint teaching at USC from 1971 to 1972,he became a professor at the Brigham Young University. In 1988 he became a professor at Indiana University Bloomington,and in 1996 he was made a distinguished Professor of Music there. [1]
Mathiesen's research centers around Ancient music,in particular,he is a leading scholar of the music of Ancient Greece. [1] This subject is the topic of his four book-length studies,Aristides Quintilianus on Music in Three Books:Translation,with Introduction,Commentary,and Annotations (1983),Ancient Greek Music Theory:A Catalogue raisonnéof Manuscripts RISM B/XI (1988),Greek Views of Music (1997) and Apollo's Lyre:Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1999). [2] Other topics he engages in include the history of music theory,particularly of Medieval music and Renaissance music. [1] His scholarship includes the topics of "textual criticism,editorial technique,bibliography and codicology". [1]
Mathiesen established in 1990 the online project Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) and led it until 2015. Due to his efforts TML became a world-wide known database of early music treatises,with a free access. [3]
The recipient of numerous awards and grants,Mathiesen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990,the American Musicological Society's Kinkeldey Award and multiple Deems Taylor Awards from ASCAP,among others. [4]
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