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IU School of Music faculty member elected to American
Academy of Arts and Sciences
May 10, 2001
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An Indiana University School of Music faculty member has
joined a distinguished list of national colleagues in one of the most
prestigious academic organizations in the world, the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
Thomas J. Mathiesen, Distinguished Professor and David H. Jacobs Chair in
Music, was elected to membership in AAAS, an organization that recognizes
achievement in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
The 14th Bloomington faculty member to achieve membership in the academy,
Mathiesen will be formally inducted in an October ceremony at the organization's
headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
Considered the world's leading specialist in ancient Greek music, Mathiesen
earned his doctorate from University of Southern California in 1971. He studies
the history of music and music theory in the ancient worlds and the middle ages.
Director of the IU Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature,
Mathiesen has earned fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities (1985, 1992 and 1994), the Guggenheim Foundation (1990) and the
American Council of Learned Societies (1977).
His books and articles concentrate on Greek manuscripts as cultural
artifacts, organology, translations and editions of early Greek and Byzantine
music sources, the theory of textual criticism, bibliography, and the music for
silent films. His writings have been published by Yale University Press,
University of Nebraska Press, W.W. Norton, and G. Henle Verlag, as well as in
Acta musicologica, Journal of Musicology, Music Theory
Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, Indiana Theory Review,
several Festschriften, and congress reports.
His book Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the
Middle Ages was recognized in 2000 by the American Musicological Society,
the Society for Music Theory, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers as an outstanding work.
Mathiesen also directs one of the most successful online databases in the
humanities, the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum.
Other elected members in the category of visual and performing arts this year
include film-maker Woody Allen, photographer Richard Avadon, and composer and
lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded more than 200 years ago
by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other prominent leaders during
the nation's early years. The organization annually honors leading intellectuals
from both the United States and abroad. It has a membership of 3,600 fellows and
600 foreign honorary members, who conduct projects and studies responsive to the
needs and problems of society.
For more information on AAAS, visit the organization's Web site at
http://www.amacad.org/
Mathiesen can be reached at 812-855-5471 or
mathiese@indiana.edu
(Maria Talbert, 812-856-5719, mtalbert@indiana.edu)