Roger Mathew Grant

Appointment: 2010 to 2013
Music

Roger Mathew Grant is currently at work on a book manuscript that examines a dramatic change in the conceptualization of musical time that took place during the eighteenth century. His project seeks to understand the common strategies for theorizing time in treatises on subjects such as aesthetics, music theory, mathematics, and natural philosophy. Additional projects include a study of debates on solmization from the sixteenth century to the present day, and work on the reception of the infinite series in eighteenth-century theories of music.

Roger received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Leonard B. Meyer Graduate Fellow in Music and a Mellon Graduate Research Fellow in the Penn Humanities Forum. He has published articles and reviews in Eighteenth-Century Music, Music Theory Online, The Journal of the American Musicological Society, and elsewhere. Before coming to the University of Michigan, he taught at The Curtis Institute of Music. An active performer, he particularly enjoys singing fifteenth-century music from original notation.