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Chair of Humanities, Associate Professor
Humanities

Matthew Peattie is an Associate Professor of the Humanities. He holds degrees in musicology from the University of Calgary, l’Université de Montréal and Harvard University. His research is focused on the early history of music writing and the intersection of aurality and notation. He also designs typefaces of early music and is active as a performer of old and new music. His publications include "Chant Notation in Transcription and Translation" (Early Music) “Transcribing the Beneventan Chant” (Plainsong and Medieval Music), “Old Beneventan Melodies in a Breviary at Naples” (Journal of Musicology), as well as essays in the volumesMusica e liturgia a Montecassino nel MedioevoԻCity, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music. His musical editionThe Music of the Beneventan Rite, co-authored with Thomas F. Kelly, appears in the seriesMonumenta Monodica Medii Aevi(Bärenreiter, 2016). Matthew is also active as a conductor and is past director ofCCM Vox Antiquaat the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music and Ensemble 1521. He works regularly with the Schola Cantorum OrbiSophia in Benevento, IT, and has taught in the summer program ofL’Associazione Internazionale Studi di Canto Gregoriano.