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Robert Hasegawa

Academic title(s): 

AssociateProfessor (Sabbatical leave, Fall '25), William Dawson Scholar (2023-28)

Robert Hasegawa
Department: 
Music Research
Area(s): 
Music Theory
Contact Information
Email address: 
robert.hasegawa [at] mcgill.ca
Group: 
Faculty
Office: 
Wirth Music Building, A-611
Degree(s): 

Ph.D. (Harvard), M.A. (University of California, Santa Barbara), B.A. (Bard College at Simon's Rock)

Biography: 

Robert Hasegawa joinedthe Schulich School of Music in 2012, after several years on faculty at the Eastman School of Music. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University and his scholarly interests include the music of Gy繹rgy Ligeti, French spectralist composters G矇rard Grisey and Tristan Murail, transformational theory, and the history of music theory. His doctoral dissertation Just Intervals and Tone Representation in Contemporary Music, explored how research on the psychology of aural perception can inform the analysis of music by composers ranging from Claude Debussy to La Monte Young. Other recent projects include a study of Hans Zenders recent microtonal music (published inPerspectives of New Music), an article on atonal theory for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, a chapter on extended just intonation for the volumeTh矇ories de la composition musicale au XXesi癡cle,and articles in the Oxford Handbookseries on compositional constraints and the relationship between timbre and harmony in contemporary music.In addition to his theoretical work, Robert is an active composer with works performed by cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, Stephen Drury and the Callithumpian Consort, and the Ar礙te Duo (Doug O'Connor, saxophone and Jake Harpster, percussion). For more details, visit his.

Teaching areas: 

Twentieth- and twenty-first century music, music analysis, timbre and orchestration, microtonality, spectral music, music theory pedagogy, history of music theory

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