Matthew Cheung Salisbury
Matthew holds degrees from the universities of Toronto and Oxford and is completing a doctoral dissertation on the sources, texts and chants of the medieval liturgical Office in England at Worcester College, Oxford, supported by a SSHRC doctoral fellowship. His The Use of York (York, 2008), is the first study to examine comprehensively the evidence from the known sources of the York Office, the dominant pattern in the medieval north of England. Articles and reviews can be found in such journals as Plainsong and Medieval Music and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History. In addition to research, Matthew teaches early music history for several Oxford colleges. In 2009 he was elected a Trustee of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. A former choral scholar, he has directed plainsong services in Oxford, including reconstructions of medieval liturgies based on new transcriptions and editorial work, and was an advisor to the forthcoming Schola Gregoriana recording on Herald.
A (now peripatetic) member of the Project since May 2004, Matthew is working to describe the corpus of over four hundred manuscript and printed sources of the Becket Office, determining the geographical and temporal places of use that seem to be indicated by each source as a whole, and the distribution and transmission of the office in general terms. In addition he has worked on melodic analysis, disambiguation and description of the less popular Office liturgies for Becket, and technical support for the transcription and analysis of variants. His other interests include the care and feeding of the microfilm reader.
A (now peripatetic) member of the Project since May 2004, Matthew is working to describe the corpus of over four hundred manuscript and printed sources of the Becket Office, determining the geographical and temporal places of use that seem to be indicated by each source as a whole, and the distribution and transmission of the office in general terms. In addition he has worked on melodic analysis, disambiguation and description of the less popular Office liturgies for Becket, and technical support for the transcription and analysis of variants. His other interests include the care and feeding of the microfilm reader.