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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鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al 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) 鈥淭ranscribing the Beneventan Chant鈥 (Plainsong and Medieval Music), 鈥淥ld Beneventan Melodies in a Breviary at Naples鈥 (Journal of Musicology), as well as essays in the volumes听Musica e liturgia a Montecassino nel Medioevo听补苍诲听City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music. His musical edition听The Music of the Beneventan Rite, co-authored with Thomas F. Kelly, appears in the series听Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi听(B盲renreiter, 2016). Matthew is also active as a conductor and is past director of听CCM Vox Antiqua听at 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 of听L鈥橝ssociazione Internazionale Studi di Canto Gregoriano.听