Matthew BaileyShea
Professor of Music Theory
Professor of Music, The College Department of Music, University of Rochester
BIOGRAPHY
Matt BaileyShea received his Ph.D. 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.
