Anne Hyland

ANNE HYLAND is Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis at the University of Manchester. She holds degrees from University College Dublin (BA hons, BMus, and MMus) and the University of Cambridge, where she earned her PhD in 2012, working with Prof. Nicholas Marston at King's College. From 2011-12, she was lecturer in the Music Department at Trinity College, Dublin and at Dundalk Institute of Technology before taking up a lectureship in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London (2012). She joined the Faculty of Music at the University of Manchester in 2014 and since then has held the position of Admissions Tutor for Music (2014-19) and has overseen and delivered the Analysis pathway of the curriculum from 1st year to PG level. Anne currently sits on the Peer-Review College of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music (September 2023-).

Anne is a musicologist and music analyst specialising in the music of the first half of the nineteenth century, with a particular interest in chamber music and its contexts. Her research has been especially concerned with the instrumental music of Franz Schubert, exploring this repertoire from analytical, historiographical and philosophical perspectives as well as from the perspective of contemporaneous editorial practices. Her monograph, Schubert's String Quartets: the Teleology of Lyric Form appeared in Cambridge University Press's Music in Context Series in April 2023, and was awarded the Anthony Pople Mid-Career Researcher Award of the Society for Music Analysis. Her first article, 'Rhetorical Closure in the First Movement of Schubert's Quartet in C Major, D46: a Dialogue with Deformation' (2009) won the Music Analysis 25th Anniversary Award.

Anne is the recipient of a BA/Leverhulme Research Award and a Collaborative Strategic Partnership with the University of Toronto, working with Prof. Steven Vande Moortele on a joint research project into micro-theories of Romantic form in early nineteenth-century Viennese music. 

Beyond the university, Anne is Associate Editor of Music Analysis (2020-) and has been a member of the editorial board of the journal since 2009 (as Editorial Assistant, 2009-2017, and Critical Forum Editor, 2017-20). She also served on the editorial board of Music Theory Spectrum (2021-2024) and the advisory board of the Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (RATM), one of two journals published by the Italian Gruppo Analisi a Teoria Musicale (GATM). Anne has also served on the council of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and was the inaugural Equality and Diversity Officer for the Society for Music Analysis (untli 2023). Anne joined the council of the Schubert Insistute UK as committee member in September 2024.

Anne’s recent research has two major streams. First, she continues to write on aspects of musical form from an analytical viewpoint in the music of Hummel (the piano trios) and Chopin (focusing on the early sonatas). She also leads a research project centring on string-quartet performance and publication in Vienna in the decades surrounding 1800. Supported by a BA/Leverhulme research grant, the project develops an historicist approach to musical analysis, focussing specifically on the Austro-Germanic tradition in early nineteenth-century Vienna. As part of this, together with a TA, she has created modern editions of six quartets by Joseph Mayseder (1789-1863). Concurrently, and following the award of an International Strategic Partnership with the University of Toronto, she is also undertaking collaborative work with Prof. Steven Vande Moortele on the project, ‘Towards a Micro-Theory of Romantic Form in Viennese Music, 1815–28’.