Lecturer on Music
lhynestawa@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building 306N
617-495-3230
Liam Hynes-Tawa is a music theorist specializing in modern Japanese and Renaissance European forms of tonality. This research usually involves trying to figure out how irreconcilable ways of thinking about pitch have dealt with each other, as well as the entertainingly vexing question of what modes and keys are, and how feelings around those concepts have been graphically represented. Liam has a BA in Music and East Asian Studies from Brown University, a PhD in Music Theory from Yale University, and recent publications in Intégral, the History of Theory blog, and Analytical Approaches to World Music, the last of which was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory. Liam also continues to play cello, sing (especially from earlier notations), and write music when possible.