Matthew BaileyShea
- Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
- Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music
- Chair, Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
PhD, Yale
1-310 Dewey Hall
(585) 275-9398
Fax: (585) 273-5337
matthew.baileyshea@rochester.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Biography
Matt BaileyShea received his PhD in Music Theory from Yale University in 2003 with a dissertation on the music of Wagner. He has published on a variety of topics including form, gesture, agency, chromatic harmony, and recomposition. He recently published the book Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song (Yale University Press), which won the 2022 Wallace Berry Award from The Society for Music Theory. He is currently working on a book called Troubled Sleep: The Dark Side of Lullabies in Rock, Broadway, and Beyond.
Dr. BaileyShea has been teaching music in both the College Music Department and the Eastman School of Music since 2003. In 2006, he was the recipient of the G. Graydon Curtis '58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2010 he was voted “Professor of the Year” in the humanities. In 2019, he received the Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.