David Hiley | |
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| Born | 5 September 1947 Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England |
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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.
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).
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). From 1978 to 1990 he edited the PMMS' Plainsong and Medieval Music journal.
