“Nonne inversum ostendis? Music and Image in the Medieval Exultet Rolls”

Thomas Forrest Kelly is Morton B. Knafel Research Professor of Music at Harvard University.  He attended Groton School, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (A. B. 1964). Two years in France on a Fubright grant allowed him to study organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris (diplôme de virtuosité 1966) and the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM 1964). His graduate study was at Harvard (A. M. 1970, PhD 1973).
 
His book The Beneventan Chant (Cambridge) was awarded the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the most distinguished work of musicological scholarship of 1989; a revised edition, edited and translated by Alessandro De Lillo, was published as Il Canto beneventano in 2017.
 
His is the author of The Role of the Scroll (Norton, 2019); Capturing Music (Norton, 2015); First Nights: Five Performance Premieres (Yale, translated into Korean and Chinese), and Early Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, translated into  German and Hungarian).
 
He is an honorary citizen of the city of Benevento, a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy in Rome, and the Medieval Academy of America. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017.