David Hiley
{{Short description|English musicologist (born 1947)}}
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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.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Schlager |first=Karl-Heinz |year=2001 |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |title=Hiley, David |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47773 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000047773 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
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.
Hiley specializes in early music, particularly plainchant, early polyphony and English music. His publications include two book-length surveys of plainchant, Western Plainchant (1993) and Gregorian Chant (2009).{{cite journal |last=Crocker |first=Richard |date=2011 |title=Gregorian Chant. By David Hiley |journal=Music and Letters |volume=92 |issue=4 |pages=633–636 |jstor=41418777 |doi=10.1093/ml/gcr082 }}
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).{{cite web |url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Hiley_David |title=David Hiley |publisher=Academia Europaea |access-date=24 December 2023 }} From 1978 to 1990 he edited the PMMS' Plainsong and Medieval Music journal.
Selected bibliography
=Books=
- {{cite book |editor-first1=Crocker |editor-last1=Richard |editor-first2=Hiley |editor-last2=David |year=1990 |title=The New Oxford History of Music |volume=II: The Early Middle Ages To 1300 |edition=2nd |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-316329-4 |ref=no }}
- {{cite book |last=Hiley |first=David |year=1993 |title=Western Plainchant: A Handbook |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-816289-6 |ref=no }}
- {{cite book |last=Hiley |first=David |year=2009 |title=Gregorian Chant |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-69035-5 |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
=Articles=
- {{cite journal |last=Hiley |first=David |date=May 1998 |title=Recent Research on the Origins of Western Chant |journal=Early Music |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=202–213 |jstor=3127192 |ref=no }}
- {{cite journal |last=Hiley |first=David |date=1997 |title=Writings on Western Plainchant in the 1980s and 1990s |journal=Acta Musicologica |volume=69 |issue=Fasc. 1 |pages=53–93 |jstor=932802 |doi=10.2307/932802 |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
- {{cite encyclopedia |last=Hiley |first=David |year=2001 |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |title=Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21895 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000021895 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
- {{cite encyclopedia |last=Hiley |first=David |year=2001 |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |title=Notker |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.20128 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000020128 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
- {{cite encyclopedia |last=Hiley |first=David |year=2016 |orig-year=2004 |title=Notker Balbulus |encyclopedia=MGG Online |publisher=Bärenreiter |location=Kassel |language=German |url=https://www.mgg-online.com/article?id=mgg09541 |url-access=subscription |author-mask=2 |ref=no }} {{subscription required}}
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