Peter Jeffery
Encyclopedia
Life
He graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, and the Performing Arts, in New York CityNew York City
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, and from Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...
of the City University of New York
City University of New York
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, and from Princeton University
Princeton University
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with a Ph.D. in Music History in 1980.
He taught at Harvard University
Harvard University
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, the University of Delaware
University of Delaware
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, and Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, and is currently a professor at the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
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Awards
- 1985 Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological SocietyAmerican Musicological SocietyThe American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...
- National Endowment for the HumanitiesNational Endowment for the HumanitiesThe National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
, research grant - 1987 MacArthur Fellows ProgramMacArthur Fellows ProgramThe MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...
Works
- Re-envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant, University of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN 9780226395807
- Ethiopian Christian Chant: an Anthology (1993–97, coauthored with Kay Kaufman Shelemay), the three-volume, A-R Editions, Inc., 1993, ISBN 9780895792853
- The Study of Medieval Chant: Paths and Bridges, East and West, Editors Kenneth Levy, Peter Jeffery, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2001, ISBN 9780851158006
- The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery, Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780300117608
- Translating tradition: a chant historian reads Liturgiam authenticam, Liturgical Press, 2005, ISBN 9780814662113
External links
- Website
- "Letter from Peter Jeffery", Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 175–179