Department:
Theory

Contact:
shea@mail.rochester.edu
(585) 275-9398

Matthew BaileyShea received his bachelor's degree in composition from Connecticut College in 1996, and completed his Ph.D. in Music Theory in 2003 at Yale University, with a dissertation entitled, "The Wagnerian Satz: The Rhetoric of the Sentence in Wagner's Post-Lohengrin Operas."

BaileyShea focuses primarily on late nineteenth-century music, but his research covers a variety of topics, including pedagogy, chromatic theory, and musical form. He has articles in Current Musicology, The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and Intégral; he has presented papers at both regional and national meetings of the Society for Music Theory, and has also presented at the 12th Biennial International Conference on 19th-Century Music.

BaileyShea joined the faculty of the theory department at Eastman as assistant professor of theory in 2003; he also holds the position of assistant professor of music in the College of the University of Rochester.