Matthew Salisbury

Worcester College

Supervisors:
Professor Richard Sharpe and Dr Cristina Dondi

Thesis title:
The liturgical Office in late medieval England

Personal webpage

Research Interests

Liturgical texts and chants and their manuscript and printed sources are the focus of my research; I am interested particularly in the differentiation of the several liturgical Uses in late medieval England. Other interests: The cataloguing and description of manuscripts and early printed books. The relations between text and performance in aural/oral cultures. Late medieval ecclesiastical history. Information technology.

Projects and Publications

Teaching
FHS Topics in Music History Before 1750 (History I)
Other activities
Research collaborator, The Becket Project, an investigation of the liturgies composed in honour of St Thomas Becket, University of Toronto.
Producer of several reconstructions of medieval services, including a lengthy Matins of the Dead (Worcester College Chapel, Michaelmas Term 2008) and consultant to a forthcoming recording by Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge.
A Trustee of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.

Sample publications

Cataloguing Discrepancies: the printed York Breviary of 1493, with Andrew Hughes and Heather Robbins, forthcoming from University of Toronto Press.
The Use of York: characteristics of the medieval liturgical Office in York (York, 2008).
'A "trivial" variant: filled thirds in the Office for St Thomas Becket', Plainsong and Medieval Music 16, no. 1 (April, 2007).