School of Visual, Performing and Design Arts

Matthew Boyle is a music theorist whose research examines the expressive uses of musical conventions in Italian-language opera. His current projects include articles on issues of pleasure in the operas of Gioachino Rossini, the analysis of recitative, and musical form in early two-tempo arias. He is published or forthcoming in the Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, Indiana Theory Review, and an edited collection published by Peeters. His article “Galant Recitative Schemas,” co-authored with Paul Sherrill, received the David Kraehenbuehl Prize and the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Award.