Dr. Matthew BaileyShea
Associate Professor of Music, the College, University of Rochester
matthew.baileyshea@rochester.edu
Courses: Music Theory
Todd Union 201
(585) 275-9398
Ph.D., Yale
Matthew BaileyShea received his bachelor’s degree in composition from Connecticut College in 1996, and completed his Ph.D. in 2003 at Yale University, with a dissertation entitled, “The Wagnerian Satz: The Rhetoric of the Sentence in Wagner’s Post-Lohengrin Operas.”
BaileyShea has articles on the music of Wagner and Hugo Wolf forthcoming in 19th-Century Music and Music Analysis. In 2005, he presented “The Hexatonic and the Double Tonic: Wolf ’s Christmas Rose” at the Society of Music Theory conference in Boston. He will present another paper, “Alberich after the Apocalypse: Christopher Rouse’s Sequel to Wagner’s Ring,” at the AMS/SMT conference in Los Angeles in 2006.
BaileyShea joined the faculty of the College Music Department as assistant professor of theory in 2003. In 2006, he was the recipient of the G. Graydon Curtis '58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Nontenured Member of the Faculty, and was honored at the College commencement ceremony