David Hiley

David Hiley
Born	(1947-09-05) 5 September 1947 Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England
Occupation	Musicologist
Known for	Scholarship on plainchant
Academic background
Alma mater	Magdalen College King's College London
Academic work
Discipline	Early music
Institutions	University of Regensburg Royal Holloway Eton College

David Hiley (born 5 September 1947) is an English musicologist. He specializes in early music, particularly plainchant, early polyphony and English music.

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).

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.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Hiley, David (1993). Western Plainchant: A Handbook. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816289-6.
• —— (2009). Gregorian Chant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-69035-5.

Articles

• Hiley, David (May 1998). "Recent Research on the Origins of Western Chant". Early Music. 16 (2): 202–213. JSTOR 3127192.
• —— (1997). "Writings on Western Plainchant in the 1980s and 1990s". Acta Musicologica. 69 (Fasc. 1): 53–93. doi:10.2307/932802. JSTOR 932802.
• —— (2001). "Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21895. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)